(New)Nikolai Gogol – Dead Souls (Wordsworth Classics)[Shelves:77, 76, 77, 76]

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Stan:Książka Nowa, może posiadać niewielkie uszkodzenia powstałe podczas transportu z Anglii. / The Book is new. There might be minor defects made on the way from England.
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Autor/Author: Nikolai Gogol
Tytuł/Title: Dead Souls (Wordsworth Classics)
ISBN: 9781840226379
Data wydania/Publish date: 2010-06-15
Wydawnictwo/Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Liczba stron/Number of pages: 496


With an Introduction by Tony Briggs. Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up dead souls . These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain on the record and still attract a tax demand. Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russia. Will he get away with it? Who will rumble him? Does this narrative contain a deeper message about Russia itself or the spiritual health of humanity? There is much interest and some suspense in considering these issues, but the real pleasure of this story lies elsewhere. It is an enjoyable comic romp through a retarded part of a backward country, a picaresque series of grotesque portraits, situations and conversations described with Gogolian humour based mainly on hyperbole. This is, quite simply, the funniest book in the Russian language before the twentieth century.

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