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Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Susanne Fusso (transl.), Bernard Guilbert Guernsey (ed.) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Dead Souls about?
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. 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. Long out of print, the Guerney translation of Dead Souls is now reissued. The text has been made more faithful to
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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Nikolai Gogol, Susanne Fusso (transl.), Bernard Guilbert Guernsey (ed.)
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300060997
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.98 / 5 (170 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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