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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: A Poem (Oxford World's Classics)
September 11, 1998, Oxford University Press, USA
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0192818376 9780192818379
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"Into the gates of the inn in the provincial capital NN there drove a small but rather handsome sprung chaise of the kind affected by bachelors, such as retired lieutenant colonels, staff-captains, land-owners possessed of some one hundred souls-in a word, by all those regarded as gentlemen of the middle estate."
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October 4, 2010 | Edited by WorkBot | merge works |
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