Few literary works have been so variously interpreted as Nikolai Gogol's enduring comic masterpiece, Dead Souls.
Chichikov, an amusing and often confused schemer, buys deceased serfs' names from landholders' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for profit
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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, ...
This edition of Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol and translated by D. J. Hogarth is given by Ashed Phoenix - Million Book Edition
Although the novel ends in mid-sentence, it is usually regarded as complete in the extant form.
Although Dead Souls (1842) was largely composed by Gogol during self-imposed exile in Italy in the late 1830s, his last work remains to this day the most essentially Russian of all the great novels in Russian literature.
Dead Souls is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The purpose of the novel was to demonstrate the flaws and faults of the Russian mentality and character.
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Ian Rankin's Dead Souls is "crime writing of the highest order" (Daily Express).
Stalking a poisoner at the local zoo, Inspector John Rebus comes across a paedophile taking pictures of children.