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Dead Souls

Author
Nikolai Gogol
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
13 hours 13 minutes
ISBN
9781802563207
Published
16 February 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • satire
  • corruption
  • greed
  • serfdom
  • landowners
  • absurdity
  • opportunism
  • morality
  • Russian society
  • unfinished masterpiece

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Description

Chichikov buys the names of dead serfs still listed on the census, hoping paper souls will buy him status and credit. Each landowner he meets is another kind of folly. Spoken as Gogol?s comic nightmare when a swindle becomes a tour of a hollow country.

Author

Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) was the master of a satire so quiet it can seem harmless — until the ground shifts beneath it. In Dead Souls he mapped the hollow soul of imperial Russia with comic precision; in The Overcoat and The Nose he turned ordinary clerks and missing body parts into fables of humiliation, obsession, and bureaucratic nightmare.

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