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Аннотация: Dead Souls
| Автор/составитель | Гоголь Николай Васильевич |
| Серия | Penguin Classics |
| Год выпуска | 2012 |
| ISBN | 978-0-14-044807-8 |
| Производитель | Penguin |
| Издательство | Penguin |
| Количество томов | 1 |
| Количество страниц | 464 |
| Переплет | Мягкая обложка |
| Размеры | 198x129x25 мм |
| Страна изготовления | Великобритания |
| Цвет | Серый |
| Тип бумаги | газетная (30-52 г/м2) |
| Стандарт | 10 |
| Вес | 348 |
| Язык | английский |
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these 'souls' as collateral to re-invent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the devilish con man Chichikov.
Dead Souls, Russia's first major novel, is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy.
