Dead Souls (Everyman's Library) (HB) by Nikolai Gogol, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)

Dead Souls (Everyman's Library) (HB) by Nikolai Gogol, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)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

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