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Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016-12-14
主題	Literary Collections / General
ISBN	15410907219781541090729
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rlAdMQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"--deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them--we are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov's proposition.