Dead Souls (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781500801892)

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: Gogol Nikolai
ISBN-10: 1500801895
ISBN-13: 9781500801892
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/11/2014
Pages: 306
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.57lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.64d