Gogol, Nikolai creator author. text Hertfordshire Wordsworth editions c2010 monographic eng

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xxiii, 472 pages : 19 cm. "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 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. Adult Nikolai Gogol ; translated by Isabel F. Hapgood ; with an introduction by Anthony Briggs. Purchased Mindajao, Lynie College of Teacher Education Fiction Text in English Individual Sports Classic Literature & Fiction 9781840226379 [newsprint] University of Cebu-Banillad 250620 20250626095830.0