Description: 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.
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Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Foreword by: Frank O’Connor
Special Attributes: Vintage Paperback
Signed: No
Translated by: Andrew R. MacAndrew
Author: Nikolai Gogol
Publisher: A Signet Classic
Topic: to fraudulently amass evidence of "property" man buys dead serfs
Subject: Historical Fiction
Year Printed: 1961
