
Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
Title:
Dead Souls
Author:
Nikolai Gogol
Series (if any):
Everyman's Library CLASSICS
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
480 pages
Publisher:
TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale
ISBN-13:
9781857152807
EAN:
9781857152807
Classifications:
Classic and Biographical
Weight (g):
716
Dimensions (mm):
211 x 131 x 32
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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 are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov's proposition. This lively, idiomatic English version by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessible the full extent of the novel's lyricism, sulphurous humour, and delight in human oddity and error.






























