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Dead Souls (1842) [Novel]
by Nikolai Gogol Rating: Weighted - 9.2 / Average - 9.2 of 10 (9 votes) (Rate!)
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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.

Original title: Мертвые души [Mertvye dushi]
Original languages: Russian

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Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction→ Literary Fiction/classics

This work is imitated by the following works :
Adventures of Chichikov, the (1925) [Short Story]
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov

Edition #1: Dead Souls

Dead Souls (2004)

Edition Details (From the publisher):

In his introduction, translator and Gogol scholar Robert Maguire discusses the protracted and troubled story of the novel's composition, Gogol's narrative technique, and his place in the Russian and European literary traditions.

Includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading, appendices, glossary, map, and notes

Language: English

Translated by: Robert A. Maguire

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Dead Souls (2004)

Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 0140448071
Dimensions: 5.1 x 7.8 x in
Pages: 512

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Edition #2: Dead Souls

Dead Souls (1998)

Edition Details (From the publisher):

This brilliant new translation by Christopher English is complemented by a superb introductory essay by the pre-eminent Gogol scholar, Robert Maguire.

Language: English

Translated by: Christopher English
Introduction by: Robert A. Maguire

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