Dead Souls

by Nikolai Gogol Narrated by Arthur Morey

Overview

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make 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 reinvent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Nikolai 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.



This version of Dead Souls is the translation by C. J. Hogarth.

Editorial Reviews

Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature

Considered one of the world’s finest satires, this picaresque work traces the adventures of the social-climbing Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant out to seek his fortune. It is admired not only for its enduring comic portraits but also for its sense of moral purpose.”

AudioFile

Considered one of the great novels in the Russian canon, this book is a symbolic snapshot of nineteenth-century Russian life and an intense literary experience…Narrator Tom Weiner has a deep, robust, nasally tinged voice that captures the tone of the book.”

From the Publisher

Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange. (Vladimir Nabokov)"

Meriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

Admired not only for its enduring comic portraits but also for its sense of moral purpose.

Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature

Considered one of the world’s finest satires, this picaresque work traces the adventures of the social-climbing Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant out to seek his fortune. It is admired not only for its enduring comic portraits but also for its sense of moral purpose.”

Product Details

BN ID:	2940171095956
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	03/25/2011
Edition description:	Unabridged

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