| Dead Souls Contributor(s): Hogarth, D. J. (Author), Gogol, Nikolai (Author) |
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ISBN: 1497586321 ISBN-13: 9781497586321 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $11.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 891.733 |
| Lexile Measure: 1080 |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.82 lbs) 276 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy. Set in Russia before the emancipation of serfs in 1861, the "dead souls" are dead serfs still being counted by landowners as property, as well as referring to the landowners' morality. Through surreal and often dark comedy, Gogol criticizes Russian society after the Napoleonic Wars. He intended to also offer solutions to the problems he satirized, but died before he ever completed the second part of what was intended to be a trilogy. The work famously ends mid-sentence. |