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020			_a9781840226379 [newsprint]
040			_aUniversity of Cebu-Banillad _cUniversity of Cebu-Banillad
100			_aGogol, Nikolai, _eauthor.
245			_aDead souls / _cNikolai Gogol ; translated by Isabel F. Hapgood ; with an introduction by Anthony Briggs.
260			_aHertfordshire : _bWordsworth editions, _cc2010.
300			_axxiii, 472 pages : _c19 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
505			_aPart 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.
520			_a"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
521			_aAdult
541			_aPurchased _xMindajao, Lynie _yCollege of Teacher Education _zFiction
546			_aText in English
650			_aIndividual Sports
650			_aClassic Literature & Fiction
942			_2ddc _cBK
998			_cJanna [new] _d06/20/2025
999			_c13708 _d13708