Dead Souls [electronic resource]
Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852
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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.
Main title:
Dead Souls [electronic resource] / Nikolai Gogol
Author:
Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852, AuthorHogarth, D. J., Translator
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Duke Classics, [date of publication not identified]
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Audience:
Reading grade level: 7-9
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781620111840
Language:
English
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BRN:
2906739