Dead souls
(2004, original release: 1996)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/GOGOL,N
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Everyman's Library, 2004
DESCRIPTION
xxxii, 443 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781400043194, 1400043190, 1857152808, 9781857152807, 9781400043194
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Originally published: New York : Pantheon, 1996
In this comic classic of Russian literature, Chichikov, an amusing and often confused schemer, buys deceased serfs' names from landlords' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for profit