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Dead souls / Nikolai Gogol ; translated by Isabel F. Hapgood ; with an introduction by Anthony Briggs.

By: Gogol, Nikolai [author. ]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Hertfordshire : Wordsworth editions, c2010Description: xxiii, 472 pages : 19 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume ISBN: 9781840226379 [newsprint]Subject(s): Individual Sports | Classic Literature & Fiction

Contents:

Part one -- Chapter 1 The capital of the government -- Chapter 2 The Manilov family -- Chapter 3 Madame Korobochkina -- Chapter 4 Nozdrev -- Chapter 5 Sobakevitch -- Chapter 6 Pliushkin -- Chapter 7 The trbinals and the police -- Chapter 8 The Governor's ball -- Chapter 9 The emotions of a small town -- Chapter 10 The rsult is our Hero's flight -- Chapter 11 Departure on fresh enterprises -- Part two -- Chapter 1 Tentyotnikov; or, the sorrows of love -- Chapter 3 Two persons who are original, each in his own fashion -- Chapter 4 Khlobuyov — luxury and indigence — chichikov on the way to become a landed proprietor -- Chapter 5 Two wills — a fair — a lawyer — a holy man — arrest and delivery -- Chapter 6 Miseries and grandeurs of chichikov — his opinions in the lap of fortune.

Summary: "Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol. With an Introduction by Tony Briggs. Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up dead souls . These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain on the record and still attract a tax demand. Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russia. Will he get away with it? Who will rumble him? Does this narrative contain a deeper message about Russia itself or the spiritual health of humanity? There is much interest and some suspense in considering these issues, but the real pleasure of this story lies elsewhere. It is an enjoyable comic romp through a retarded part of a backward country, a picaresque series of grotesque portraits, situations and conversations described with Gogolian humour based mainly on hyperbole. This is, quite simply, the funniest book in the Russian language before the twentieth century." --Provided by the publisher

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Item type	Current location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction	College Library Fiction	F G55de 2010 (Browse shelf)	Available		3UCBL000025913

"Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol. With an Introduction by Tony Briggs. Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up dead souls . These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain on the record and still attract a tax demand. Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russia. Will he get away with it? Who will rumble him? Does this narrative contain a deeper message about Russia itself or the spiritual health of humanity? There is much interest and some suspense in considering these issues, but the real pleasure of this story lies elsewhere. It is an enjoyable comic romp through a retarded part of a backward country, a picaresque series of grotesque portraits, situations and conversations described with Gogolian humour based mainly on hyperbole. This is, quite simply, the funniest book in the Russian language before the twentieth century." --Provided by the publisher