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Dead Souls : A Novel by Nikolai Gogol, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Dead Souls : A Novel about?
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 peas
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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, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780679776444
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.98 / 5 (1,257 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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