Dead Souls

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  • Auteur: Gogol, Nikolai
    Contributor:

    Gaither, Ed

    Résumé:

    The striving, vulgar Chichikov travels around the countryside collecting “dead souls” (deceased serfs still on the tax rolls) from landowners as a way to inflate his social standing. His travels give rise to bitingly satirical episodes through which Gogol lays bare the moral rot of the Russian middle class.

    Original Publisher: San Francisco, CA , Plympton
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781682280768

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Gaither, Ed

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The striving, vulgar Chichikov travels around the countryside collecting “dead souls” (deceased serfs still on the tax rolls) from landowners as a way to inflate his social standing. His travels give rise to bitingly satirical episodes through which Gogol lays bare the moral rot of the Russian middle class.

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San Francisco, CA

Plympton

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