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.”
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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.”
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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.”
