
Dead Souls (Wordsworth Classics) - Gogol, Nikolai
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Dead Souls (Wordsworth Classics) - Gogol, Nikolai
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Item specifics
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- 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.
Product Identifiers
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
Book Series
Wordsworth Classics
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
198 mm
Item Weight
307 g
Item Width
129 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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