Dead Souls

A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service. A comic masterpiece. A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service. Gogol''s comic masterpiece offers a vast and satirical painting of 19th-century Russia. A work of great symbolism, it continues to inspire 21st-century authors and readers.

• | Author: Nikolai Gogol
• | Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• | Publication Date: Sep 28, 2003
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780486426822
• | ISBN-10: 0486426823