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Dead Souls (Everyman's Library Classics) Book

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. This lively, idiomatic English version by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessible the full extent of the novel's lyricism, sulphurous humour, and delight in human oddity and error.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on...

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    Dead Souls : Hardback : Everyman : 9781857152807 : 1857152808 : 02 Sep 2004 : 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;

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    Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Richard Pevear (Trans), Larissa Volokhonsky (Trans)

  • 1857152808
  • 9781857152807
  • Nikolai Gogol
  • 2 September 2004
  • Everyman's Library
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 443
  • New edition
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