An edition of Мертвые души (1842)

Dead souls

the Reavey translation, backgrounds and sources, essays in criticism

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An edition of Мертвые души (1842)

Dead souls

the Reavey translation, backgrounds and sources, essays in criticism

by

  • ★★★★ ★ 4.67 ·
  • 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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W.W. Norton
Language
English
Pages
585

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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)
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
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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Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 585.
Translation of: Mertvye dushi.

Series
A Norton critical edition

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Dewey Decimal Class
891.73/3
Library of Congress
PG3333 .M4 1985

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 585 p. ;
Number of pages
585

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Open Library
OL2845937M
Internet Archive
deadsoulsreaveyt00gogo
ISBN 10
0393952924
LCCN
84008027
OCLC/WorldCat
10725927
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6932405
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789314

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