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Dead Souls (Dover Thrift Ed)

by Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogal

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service and for whom they must continue to pay taxes until the next census. The landowner receives a payment and a relief of his tax burden, and the stranger receives--what? Gogol's comic masterpiece offers a vast and satirical painting of the Russian panorama as it traces the path and encounters of its mysterious protagonist in pursuit of his dubious scheme. Dead Souls regarded as both a realistic portrait of nineteenth-century Russia and a work of great symbolism, continues to inspire twenty-first century authors and readers.

Synopsis:

A mysterious swindler buys and sells "dead souls" — deceased serfs who, according to government records, are still alive. Rich with ironic twists and comic characters, this book, among the greatest nineteenth-century Russian novels, is required reading for many literature students.

Synopsis:

A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service. Gogol's comic masterpiece offers a vast and satirical painting of 19th-century Russia. A work of great symbolism, it continues to inspire 21st-century authors and readers.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780486426822
Author:
Gogal, Nikolai Vasil'evich
Publisher:
Dover Publications
Author:
Gogol, Nikolai Vasil'evich
Author:
Gogol, Nikolai
Location:
Mineola, N.Y.
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Series:
Dover thrift editions
Series Volume:
61
Publication Date:
June 2003
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
- Up
Language:
English
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
8.28x5.22x.74 in. .52 lbs.
Age Level:
14-UP

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