Dead Souls

By: Gogol, Nikolai

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08H5D512Y
• ISBN13: 9798681178354
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"