Dead Souls

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ISBN: 9780140448078
作者: Nikolai Gogol
譯者: Robert A. Maguire
出版社: Penguin Classics
發行時間: 2004 -12
叢書: Penguin Classics
語言: 英語
裝訂: Paperback
價格: USD 13.00
頁數: 512

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Nikolai Gogol    譯者: Robert A. Maguire

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Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying taxes 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.

In his introduction to this new translation, Robert A. Maguire discusses Gogol's life and literary career, his depiction of Russian society, and the language and narrative techniques employed in Dead Souls . This edition also includes a chronology, further reading, appendices, a glossary, map and notes.

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