Dead Souls

By Gogol, Nikolai Vassilievitch

Book Id: WPLBN0000632175
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 1.03 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Dead Souls
Author:	Gogol, Nikolai Vassilievitch
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago Vasilievich Gogol, B. N. (n.d.). Dead Souls. Retrieved from https://www.central.gutenberg.org/

Excerpt
Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the limbs of a single tree. Dostoieffsky goes so far as to bestow this tribute upon an earlier work by the same author, a short story entitled The Cloak; this idea has been wittily expressed by another compatriot, who says: ?We have all issued out of Gogol?s Cloak.?

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Dead Souls, 1 -- Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, 1