Dead Souls

Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol ; tr. D.J. Hogarth.

Dead Souls is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy. Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still...

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Main Author: Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Champaign, Ill. : Project Gutenberg, [199-?]
Series:Ebsco e-book purchased.
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English fiction.
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Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
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Uniform Title:Mertvye dushi.
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Summary:Dead Souls is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy. Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these "souls" as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman.-Amazon.com.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
ISBN:0585006997 (electronic bk.)
9780585006994 (electronic bk.)

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