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    Genre
    Classic fiction
    ISBN
    9781840226379

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    Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up 'dead souls'. These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain on the record and still attract a tax demand. Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russia. Will he get away with it? Who will rumble him? Does this narrative contain a deeper message about Russia itself or the spiritual health of humanity? There is much interest and some suspense in considering these issues, but the real pleasure of this story lies elsewhere. It is an enjoyable comic romp through a retarded part of a backward country, a picaresque series of grotesque portraits, situations and conversations described with Gogolian humour based mainly on hyperbole. This is, quite simply, the funniest book in the Russian language before the twentieth century. AUTHOR: Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol (1809 - 1852) was a Russian dramatist, novelist and short-story writer, whose satirical works on Russian life in general, and political corruption in particular eventually led to his exile. His best works, including 'Dead Souls' and 'The Nose', make him one of the funniest, yet profound, writers in literature.

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    Publisher
    Wordsworth Editions LTD
    ISBN-13
    9781840226379
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    93238381

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    Dead Souls
    Number of Pages
    496 Pages
    Language
    English
    Publication Year
    2010
    Topic
    Books
    Author
    Nikolai Gogol
    Book Series
    Wordsworth Classics
    Format
    Paperback

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    Item Height
    198 mm
    Item Weight
    307 g
    Item Width
    129 mm

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    Country/Region of Manufacture
    United Kingdom
    Title_Author
    Nikolai Gogol

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