Dead souls / Nikolai Gogol ; translated by D. J. Hogarth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich, 1809-1852.

Contributor:

Hogarth, D. J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

Russia--Social life and customs--1533-1917--Fiction.

Russia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (674 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Auckland, New Zealand] : Floating Press, 1842.

Summary:

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...

Contents:

Title; Contents; Introduction; Author's Preface to the First Portion of this Work; PART I; Chapter I; Chapter II; Chapter III; Chapter IV; Chapter V; Chapter VI; Chapter VII; Chapter VIII; Chapter IX; Chapter X; Chapter XI; PART II; Chapter I; Chapter II; Chapter III; Chapter IV; Endnotes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource : title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 6, 2014).

ISBN:

1-77556-867-9

OCLC:

540909332