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Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : The Planet
ISBN 13 : 1909115525
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dead Souls (Illustrated) written by Nikolai Gogol and published by The Planet. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikolai Gogol's masterpiece, Dead Souls, with 200 illustrations by Russian artists of 19th century.
Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300188102
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Dead Souls written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; the translation was hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "an extraordinarily fine piece of work" and is still considered the best translation of Dead Souls ever published. Long out of print, the Guerney translation of Dead Souls is now reissued. The text has been made more faithful to Gogol's original by removing passages that Guerney inserted from earlier drafts of Dead Souls. The text is accompanied by Susanne Fusso's introduction and by appendices that present excerpts from Guerney's translations of other drafts of Gogol's work and letters Gogol wrote around the time of the writing and publication of Deal Souls. "I am delighted that Guerney's translation of Dead Souls [is] available again. It is head and shoulders above all the others, for Guerney understands that to 'translate' Gogol is necessarily to undertake a poetic recreation, and he does so brilliantly."—Robert A. Maguire, Columbia University "The Guerney translation of Dead Souls is the only translation I know of that makes any serious attempt to approximate the qualities of Gogol's style—exuberant, erratic, 'Baroque,' bizarre."—Hugh McLean, University of California, Berkeley "A splendidly revised and edited edition of Bernard Guerney's classic English translation of Gogol's Dead Souls. The distinguished Gogol scholar Susanne Fusso may have brought us as close as the English reader may ever expect to come to Gogol's masterpiece. No student, scholar, or general reader will want to miss this updated, refined version of one of the most delightful and sublime works of Russian literature."—Robert Jackson, Yale University
Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307797813
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Dead Souls written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"--deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them--we are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov's proposition. This lively, idiomatic English version by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessible the full extent of the novel's lyricism, sulphurous humor, and delight in human oddity and error.
Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (541 download)
Download or read book Dead Souls an Illustrated written by Nikolai Gogol and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol, is a work of prose poetry about the protagonist, Tchitchikov, who purchases dead souls to become wealthy. The story takes place in the 1800s, in post-Napoleonic Russia. At the time, there were landowners and serfs. Landownersowned the serfs, so wealth was determined, not by the amount of land he owned, but by the number of souls he owned--the serfs. Gogol uses satire to comment on the noble class of Russian society.As serfs perish, Tchitchikov travels through the countryside, buying dead souls. He buys dead souls because he can get them for less money, allowing him to increase his wealth and, therefore, his social standing. Tchitchikov starts out in a town referred to as "N." Everyone in the town is excited about his arrival, because he is a stranger. His background is in academia, and no one there knows why he has come to N. The people like him immediately, and he soon receives many invitations to visit friends throughout the countryside.The first person Tchitchikov calls on is Manilov. Manilov is so eager to become friends with the charismatic and well-liked Tchitchikov, he offers to sell him souls without putting up much of a fuss. He plans to visit a character named Sobakevitch next, but before he can get there, a storm strikes. Madame Korobotchka provides him shelter during the storm, and they get to talking. He wants to buy her dead souls, and she agrees to sell them. He sets out after that to see Sobakevitch.Tchitchikov is delayed again when he stops in at a tavern. There he meets Nozdroyov, whom he also met in the town of N. Nozdroyov convinces Tchitchikov to visit him at his house, and he agrees. There, they eat and drink, and Tchitchikov reveals his plan to buy dead souls, but he regrets revealing his secret as soon as he says it. Nozdroyov turns rude and tells Tchitchikov that he will not sell him souls. He tries to get him to play a game of cards, and when Tchitchikov refuses, Nozdroyov tries to attack him. Tchitchikov is saved when the police arrive to arrest Nozdroyov. As it happens, he had been in a brawl a few nights before. The arrest allows Tchitchikov to escape.
Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Dead Souls Annotated and Illustrated Edition by Nikolai Gogol written by Nikolai Gogol and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gogol's time, a Russian landowner could buy and sell serfs, or "souls," like any other property. The serfs were counted, for the purpose of tax assessment, every ten years. Thus, a landowner still had to pay taxes on the value of serfs who had died, until the next ten-year census could legally record the deaths. In Dead Souls, a prose novel subtitled A Poem, Gogol's hero, Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, plans to buy the titles to these "dead souls" and use them as collateral to obtain a large loan. He comes to a small provincial town and begins to proposition the local landowners: the slothful Manilovs (the "kind-manners"), the slovenly Plewshkin ("Mr. Spitoon"), the coarse Sobakievich ("Mr. Dog"), the cautious Madame Korobachka ("Mrs. Box"), and the bully and cheat Nozdryov ("Mr. Nostrils").
Author : Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140441130
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Dead Souls written by Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1961 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few literary works have been so variously interpreted as Nikolai Gogol's enduring comic masterpiece, Dead Souls.
Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (935 download)
Download or read book Dead Souls : Illustrated Edition written by Nikolai Gogol and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-10 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Souls is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The novel chronicles the travels and adventures of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov and the people whom he encounters. These people typify the Russian middle-class of the time.
Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (666 download)
Download or read book Dead Souls Illustrated written by Nikolai Gogol and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души, Mjórtvyje dúshi) is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The novel chronicles the travels and adventures of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov (Russian: Павел Иванович Чичиков) and the people whom he encounters. These people are typical of the Russian middle-class of the time. Gogol himself saw it as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book as a "novel in verse". Despite supposedly completing the trilogy's second part, Gogol destroyed it shortly before his death. Although the novel ends in mid-sentence (like Sterne's Sentimental Journey), it is usually regarded as complete in the extant form.
Author : Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Dead Souls Illustrated written by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"--deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them--we are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov's proposition.
Author : Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Dead Souls written by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dead Souls" is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842 and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The novel presents the chronicles of the travels and adventures of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov and the people he encounters. These people typify the Russian middle aristocracy of the time, which embodied pretentiousness, fake significance, and low morals, which was also hinted at in the novel's title.
Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486114074
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Dead Souls written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service. A comic masterpiece.
Author : Nikolai Vasil'Evich Gogol
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330697849
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (978 download)
Download or read book Dead Souls (Classic Reprint) written by Nikolai Vasil'Evich Gogol and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dead Souls The poet Pushkin, who said of Gogol that behind his laughter you feel the unseen tears, was his chief friend and inspirer. It was he who suggested the plot of Dead Souls as well as the plot of the earlier work The Revisor, which is almost the only comedy in Russian. The importance of both is their introduction of the social element in Russian literature, as Prince Kropotkin points out. Both hold up the mirror to Russian officialdom and the effects it has produced on the national character. The plot of Dead Souls is simple enough, and is said to have been suggested by an actual episode. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
ISBN 13 : 6059285228
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (592 download)
Download or read book Dead Souls written by Nikolai Gogol and published by E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Souls, is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The purpose of the novel was to demonstrate the flaws and faults of the Russian mentality and character. Gogol masterfully portrayed those defects through Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov (the main character) and the people whom he encounters in his endeavours. These people are typical of the Russian middle-class of the time. Gogol himself saw it as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book as a "novel in verse". Despite supposedly completing the trilogy's second part, Gogol destroyed it shortly before his death. Although the novel ends in mid-sentence (like Sterne's Sentimental Journey) "To the door of an inn in the provincial town of N. there drew up a smart britchka—a light spring-carriage of the sort affected by bachelors, retired lieutenant-colonels, staff-captains, land-owners possessed of about a hundred souls, and, in short, all persons who rank as gentlemen of the intermediate category. In the britchka was seated such a gentleman—a man who, though not handsome, was not ill-favoured, not over-fat, and not over-thin. Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young. His arrival produced no stir in the town, and was ac-companied by no particular incident, beyond that a couple of peasants who happened to be standing at the door of a dramshop exchanged a few comments with reference to the equipage rather than to the individual who was seated in it. "Look at that carriage," one of them said to the other. "Think you it will be going as far as Moscow?" "I think it will," replied his companion. "But not as far as Kazan, eh?" "No, not as far as Kazan." With that the conversation ended. Presently, as the britchka was approaching the inn, it was met by a young man in a pair of very short, very tight breeches of white dimity, a quasi-fashionable frockcoat, and a dickey fastened with a pistol-shaped bronze tie-pin. The young man turned his head as he passed the britchka and eyed it attentively; after which he clapped his hand to his cap (which was in danger of being removed by the wind) and resumed his way.."
Author : Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Dead Souls Illustrated written by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea is that the Russian state taxes these landowners pay are based on the number of serfs (or "souls") on record. The problem is that many of these landowners must also pay for the serfs that have already died. It is these "dead souls" that Chichikov wants to buy from the landowners. He does not tell the owners why he wants the souls, but one can imagine that his plans are somewhat twisted. The novel is ultimately a social and political commentary involving exaggerated characters.
Author : Nikolay Gogol
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141906782
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Dead Souls written by Nikolay Gogol and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-07-29 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making 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 re-invent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the devilish con man Chichikov. Dead Souls, Russia's first major novel, is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy.
Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (573 download)
Download or read book Dead Souls Annotated Illustrated written by Nikolai Gogol and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-27 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life. Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls" (deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them), and we are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov's proposition. Although the novel ends in mid-sentence, it is usually regarded as complete in the extant form.
Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Dead Souls Illustrated written by Nikolai Gogol and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Souls is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The novel chronicles the travels and adventures of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov and the people whom he encounters. These people typify the Russian middle-class of the time.
