Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls (Hardback)

Dead SoulsNikolai GogolLabel: Everyman's LibraryDescription: 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.

"Nikolai Gogol's 'Dead Souls' could be the perfect read for anyone seeking a gothic and political novel set in early 19th-century Russia."