Dead Souls (Classic Edition) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781546523345)

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.

Author: Nicolai Gogol
ISBN-10: 1546523340
ISBN-13: 9781546523345
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/06/2017
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.54d