Overview

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these 'souls' as collateral to re-invent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the devilish con man Chichikov. Dead Souls, Russia's first major novel, is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy.

ISBN-13

9780140448078

ISBN-10

0140448071

Weight

0.77 Pounds

Dimensions

8.66 x 5.91 x 0.98 In

List Price

$16.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

-

Language

English

Pages

512 pages

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Published On

2004-12-28



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