Dead Souls (Dover Thrift Ed)
by Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780486426822 |
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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.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780486426822
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Dover Publications
- Author:
- Location:
- Mineola, N.Y.
- Subject:
- Classics
- Subject:
- Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General
- 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











