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An edition of Мертвые души (1842)

Dead souls

a poem

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  • 3 Ratings
  • 32 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

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.

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Penguin
Language
English
Pages
464

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Subjects
Criticism and interpretation, Fiction, Fiction in Spanish, Social life and customs, Swindlers and swindling, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Translations into English
People
Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ (1809-1852)
Places
Russia

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Die toten Seelen: Roman
2008-05, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
Taschenbuch in German - 9. Auflage
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Dead souls: a poem
2004, Penguin
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Dead souls: a poem
1998, Oxford University Press
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Dead souls
1996, Yale University Press
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Dead souls: the Reavey translation, backgrounds and sources, essays in criticism
1985, W.W. Norton
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Dead souls
1936, The Modern library
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Dead souls
1923, A.A. Knopf
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Dead souls: a poem
1922, Chatto & Windus
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Dead souls
1916, Frederick A. Stokes Co.
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London, New York

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxvii]-xxxix).
Translated from the Russian.

Series
Penguin classics
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891.733
Library of Congress
PG3333 .M4 2004b, PG3332

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Pagination
xli, 464 p. :
Number of pages
464

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Open Library
OL3322022M
ISBN 10
0140448071
LCCN
2004275517
OCLC/WorldCat
56466515
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9964
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