Dead Souls

Zusatztext Gogol was a strange creature! but then genius is always strange. (Vladimir Nabokov)" 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 One of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy 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, 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Zusammenfassung Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making 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 'dead souls' as collateral to re-invent himself as a aristocrat....

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• Authors: Nikolai Gogol, Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol, Nikolay Gogol, Gogol Nikolay, Robert A Maguire, Robert A. Maguire
• Assisted by: Robert A. Maguire (Introduction), Robert Maguire (Translation), Robert A Maguire (Translation), Robert A. Maguire (Translation), Maguire Robert (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.07.2004
• EAN: 9780140448078
• ISBN: 978-0-14-044807-8
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Russia, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Satire, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, c 1800 to c 1900, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Satirical fiction and parodies, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, Russian tsarist empire, FICTION / World Literature / Russia / 19th Century