| Dead Souls (Classic Edition) Contributor(s): Gogol, Nicolai (Author) |
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ISBN: 1546523340 ISBN-13: 9781546523345 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.76 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"--deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them--we are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov's proposition. |
