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Dead Souls is a feverish anatomy of Russian society (the book was first published in 1842) and human wiles. Even though Chichikov will be taxed on the supposed serfs, he will be able to count them as his property and gain the reputation of a g

Title	:	Dead Souls
Author	:	Nikolai Gogol
Rating	:	4.79 (990 Votes)
Asin	:	0300060998
Format Type	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	304Pages
Publish Date	:	2014-9-10
Language	:	English

Dead Souls is a feverish anatomy of Russian society (the book was first published in 1842) and human wiles. Even though Chichikov will be taxed on the supposed serfs, he will be able to count them as his property and gain the reputation of a gentleman owner. Nonetheless, he prospers. The second, however, knows Chichikov must be up to something, and the third has his servants rough him up. More pleasantries ensue before Chichikov reveals his bizarre plan. His first victim is happy to give up his souls for free--less tax burden for him. But what exactly is Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov up to?--something that will soon throw the town "into utter perplexity." After more than a week of entertainment and "passing the time, as they say, very pleasantly," he gets down to business--heading off to call on some landowners. Its author tosses off thousands of sublime epigrams--including, "However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man," and is equally adept at yearning satire: "Where is he," Gogol interrupts the action, "who, in the native tongue of our Russian soul,

Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. The text is accompanied by Susanne Fusso's introduction and by appendixes that present excerpts from Guerney's translations of other drafts of Gogol's work and letters Gogol wrote around the time of the writing and publication of Dead Souls.. Long out of print, the Guerney translation of Dead Souls is now reissued. The text has been made more faithful to Gogol's original by removing passages that Guerney inserted from earlier drafts of Dead Souls. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; the translation was hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "an extraordinarily fine piece of work" and is still considered the best translation of Dead Souls ever published

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