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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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Dead Souls (Large Print Edition)
May 14, 2007, BiblioBazaar
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1434615340 9781434615343
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Dead Souls (Large Print)
May 15, 2006, Echo Library
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Dead Souls (Clear Print)
September 13, 2006, Echo Library
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1406821209 9781406821208
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Dead Souls: A Poem (Oxford World's Classics)
September 11, 1998, Oxford University Press, USA
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0192818376 9780192818379
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"A rather handsome, light traveling carriage on springs rolled into the gates of an inn in a certain provincial capital, the kind of carriage that is favored by bachelors: retired lieutenant colonels, second captains, landowners possessing a hundred souls or so of serfs-in a word, all those who are called the fair-to-middlin' sort."
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