Dead Souls
Author(s): 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...
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Everyman
- : Everyman
- : 0.6
- : 01 January 2004
- : 3.1 Centimeters X 13.1 Centimeters X 20.8 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : 480
- : Hardback
- : GOGOL NIKOLAI