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Dead Souls

3 Ratings

3.7

Series

1 of 1033

Duration
15H 50min
Language
English
Format
Category

Fiction

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these "souls" as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Nikolai Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the devilish con man Chichikov. Dead Souls, Russia's first major novel, is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy.

This version of Dead Souls is the translation by C. J. Hogarth.

© 2011 Tantor Media (Audiobook): 9781452671222
© 2012 Interactive Media (Ebook): 9781909175297

Release date

Audiobook: 25 March 2011
Ebook: 29 June 2012

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