Dead Souls

Informationen zum Autor Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) was born in the Ukraine and left for St Peterburg at the age of 19 where he published a collection of short stories and for a short time held the post of professor of history at the university. Gogol's experience of life in St Petersburg informed his savagely satirical play! The Government Inspector! and a series of brilliant short stories including Nevsky Prospekt and Notes of a Madman. From 1836 to 48! Gogol lived abroad! mainly in Rome! where he was working on his comic epic Dead Souls - a work he wrestled with for the rest of his life before renouncing literature and burning parts of the manuscript shortly before he died. Klappentext A coiffured con man travels across Russia's rural backwaters! buying the souls of dead serfs from their owners to make his fortune! in Gogol's exuberant! bravura masterwork: the greatest comedy in Russian literature. Zusammenfassung Hey! you with the beard!' A coiffured con man travels across Russia's rural backwaters! buying the souls of dead serfs from their owners to make his fortune! in Gogol's exuberant! bravura masterwork: the greatest comedy in Russian literature.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol, Nikolay Gogol
• Verlag: Penguin Books Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 03.11.2016
• EAN: 9780241259993
• ISBN: 978-0-241-25999-3
• Seiten: 544
• Abmessung: 111 mm x 181 mm x 23 mm
• Serien: Penguin Classics; Pocket Penguins; Penguin Pocket Classics; Penguin Classics; Pocket Penguins; Penguin Pocket Classics
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Russische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.)