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by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
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Dead Souls
β Scribed by Nikolai Gogol
- Book ID
- 100296284
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble Classics
- Year
- 1842
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 344 KB
- Edition
- Barnes & Noble Classics Series (2005)
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781775411079
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Paperback, 432 pages
Published 1842
Barnes & Noble Classics Series (2005)
Introduction by: Jeffrey Meyers
Russiaβs first major novel, and perhaps still its most popular, Nikolai Gogolβs Dead Souls is a comic epic of greed and gluttony that is admired not only for its colorful cast of characters and devastating satire, but also for its sense of moral fervor.
The anti-hero of the novel is a man named Chichikov, who hatches a brilliant plan to get rich quick. He will journey through Russia and buy up, at reduced rates, the recently deceased serfs of landowners, who now wonβt have to pay government taxes on the βdead souls.β With this list of fictitious serfs as collateral, Chichikov can buy an estate and begin amassing his fortune. What follows is a series of grotesquely humorous transactions with Russian landowners, each more queer and repellant than the last. Although Gogol spends much of the novel exposing the evils of the Russian gentry through absurd and hilarious satire, he also expresses a passionate love for his country that resonates with readers even today.
A stylistic tour de force, encompassing an astonishing range of voices from delicate, intimate lyricism to robust, bawdy ribaldry, Dead Souls is an intensely felt anatomy of the human condition.
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