Dead souls
Editorial ALMA CLASSICS LTD
Espanya peninsular
- Editorial ALMA CLASSICS LTD
- ISBN13 9781847496287
- ISBN10 1847496288
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 512
- Col.lecció Alma Classics Evergreens #
- Any Edició 2017
- Idioma Anglès
- Encuadernació Paperback
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Literatura AnglesaDead souls
Editorial ALMA CLASSICS LTD
Espanya peninsular
Detalls del llibre
A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town and proceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual and somewhat macabre proposition. He offers to buy the rights to the dead serfs who are still registered on the landowner's estate, thus reducing their liability for taxes. It is not clear what Chichikov's intentions are with the dead serfs he is purchasing, and despite his attempts to ingratiate himself, his strange behaviour arouses the suspicions of everyone in the town.A biting satire of social pretensions and pomposity, Dead Souls has been revered since its original publication in 1842 as one of the funniest and most brilliant novels of nineteenth-century Russia. Its unflinching and remorseless depiction of venality in Russian society is a lasting tribute to Gogol's comic genius.