Dead Souls
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- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
23 November 2004
Summary
Dead Souls: A Grotesque Journey Through 19th Century Russia
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of ‘N’, with a strange proposition for the local landowners. He seeks to purchase the names of deceased serfs still listed on the census. His aim: to use these ‘souls’ as collateral and reinvent himself as a gentleman, while saving the landowners from tax burdens.
Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls presents a gallery of unforgettable characters, from …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140448078 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140448071 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Nikolay Gogol, Robert Maguire |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 23 November 2004 |
| Weight: | 352g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 22mm |
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Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange. (Vladimir Nabokov)”
Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange. (Vladimir Nabokov)”
About The Author
Nikolay Gogol
Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) was born in the Ukraine and left for St Peterburg at the age of 19 where he published a collection of short stories and for a short time held the post of professor of history at the university. Gogol’s experience of life in St Petersburg informed his savagely satirical play, The Government Inspector, and a series of brilliant short stories including Nevsky Prospekt and Notes of a Madman. From 1836 to 48, Gogol lived abroad, mainly in Rome, where he was working on his comic epic Dead Souls - a work he wrestled with for the rest of his life before renouncing literature and burning parts of the manuscript shortly before he died.
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