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Item Details
Title:
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DEAD SOULS
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By: |
Nikolai Gogol, Richard Pevear (Trans), Larissa Volokhonsky (Trans) |
Format: |
Hardback |

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£16.99 |
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£12.40 |
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£4.59 |
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ISBN 10: |
1857152808 |
ISBN 13: |
9781857152807 |
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Publisher: |
EVERYMAN |
Pub. date: |
1 January, 2004 |
Pages: |
480 |
Synopsis: |
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 peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov's proposition. This lively, idiomatic English version by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessible the full extent of the novel's lyricism, sulphurous humour, and delight in human oddity and error. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Everyman's Library |
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