Dead Souls
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- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
24 November 2004
Summary
‘Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange’ Vladimir Nabokov
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 gal…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140448078 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140448071 |
| Author: | Nikolay Gogol |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 24 November 2004 |
| Weight: | 362g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange. (Vladimir Nabokov)”
Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange. (Vladimir Nabokov)”
About The Author
Nikolay Gogol
Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) was born in the Ukraine and left for St Peterburg at the age of 19 where he published a collection of short stories and for a short time held the post of professor of history at the university. Gogol’s experience of life in St Petersburg informed his savagely satirical play, The Government Inspector, and a series of brilliant short stories including Nevsky Prospekt and Notes of a Madman. From 1836 to 48, Gogol lived abroad, mainly in Rome, where he was working on his comic epic Dead Souls - a work he wrestled with for the rest of his life before renouncing literature and burning parts of the manuscript shortly before he died.
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