Dead Souls - Softcover

Gogol, Nikolai

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441488189 ISBN 13: 9781441488183

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2009

Synopsis

Dead Souls written by legendary author Nikolai Gogol is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, Dead Souls is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless piees of classic literature, this gem by Nikolai Gogol is highly recommended. Published by Classic House Books and beautifully produced, Dead Souls would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library.

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From the Inside Flap:

Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"--deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them--we are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov's proposition. This lively, idiomatic English version by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessible the full extent of the novel's lyricism, sulphurous humor, and delight in human oddity and error.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author:

Ernest Lehman lives in Los Angeles, California. One of the most critically and commercially successful screenwriters ever to work in Hollywood, his movie scripts include "Sabrina," "The King and I," "Somebody Up There Likes Me," "West Side Story," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf," and "Portnoy's Complaint,"
Known primarily as one of the great American playwrights--his classic dramas in "Waiting for Lefty" and "Rocket to the Moon--"Clifford Odets also wrote or co-wrote 18 movies for film and television.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1441488189
• ISBN 13: 9781441488183
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416