Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls (Paperback) Wordsworth Classics

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Dead SoulsCondition: NewEAN: 9781840226379ISBN: 9781840226379Publisher: Wordsworth Editions LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/05/2010Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 307gAuthor: Nikolai GogolContributor: Anthony Briggs (Introduction by), Dr Keith Carabine (Series edited by), Isabel F. Hapgood (Translated by)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1840226374Description: With an Introduction by Anthony Briggs. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood. Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up 'dead souls'. These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain on the record and still attract a tax demand. Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russia. Will he get away with it? Who will rumble him? Does this narrative contain a deeper message about Russia itself or the spiritual health of humanity? There is much interest and some suspense in considering these issues, but the real pleasure of this story lies elsewhere. It is an enjoyable comic romp through a retarded part of a backward country, a picaresque series of grotesque portraits, situations and conversations described with Gogolian humour based mainly on hyperbole. This is, quite simply, the funniest book in the Russian language before the twentieth century.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBTranslator: Isabel F. HapgoodGenre: FictionBook Series: Wordsworth ClassicsTopic: Classic FictionRelease Year: 2010 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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