1961, ISBN: 32bcf3d329d6db6c3c179c9ad6efb3c9

[PU: Signet/New American Library [1961]], SIGNET CLASSIC PAPERBACK, New York. Signet/New American Library. Reprinted Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. Newly Transla… Altro …

[PU: Signet/New American Library [1961]], SIGNET CLASSIC PAPERBACK, New York. Signet/New American Library. Reprinted Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. Newly Translated From The Russian By Andrew R, MacAndrew.Foreword By Frank O'Connor. 279 pages. paperback. CT457. FROM THE PUBLISHER - DEAD SOULS describes the gambits of a quixotic opportunist in provincial Russia who sets out to buy deceased serfs at a low cost from their owners. Chichikov requires evidence of 'property,' since he wishes to marry an heiress, and is able to amass the 'souls' because their owners must pay taxes on them until they are officially declared dead in the rolls of the next census. An affable and personable business man, he is wined and dined in luxurious mansions and humble crofts, proclaimed a man of standing, and thought to be odd and delightful. Gogol's panorama of fraudulence is lasting allegory and aligns him with Swift, Voltaire, Balzac, and Dickens as one of the world's arch - satirists. 'Dead Souls provides an attentive reader with. that Gogolian gusto and wealth of weird detail which lift the whole thing to the level of a tremendous epic poem. ' - Vladimir Nabokov inventory #31217<

1961, ISBN: 32bcf3d329d6db6c3c179c9ad6efb3c9

New York. [1961]. Signet/New American Library. Reprinted Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. Newly Translated From The Russian By Andrew R, MacAndrew.Foreword By Fran… Altro …

New York. [1961]. Signet/New American Library. Reprinted Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. Newly Translated From The Russian By Andrew R, MacAndrew.Foreword By Frank O'Connor. 279 pages. paperback. CT457. FROM THE PUBLISHER - DEAD SOULS describes the gambits of a quixotic opportunist in provincial Russia who sets out to buy deceased serfs at a low cost from their owners. Chichikov requires evidence of 'property,' since he wishes to marry an heiress, and is able to amass the 'souls' because their owners must pay taxes on them until they are officially declared dead in the rolls of the next census. An affable and personable business man, he is wined and dined in luxurious mansions and humble crofts, proclaimed a man of standing, and thought to be odd and delightful. Gogol's panorama of fraudulence is lasting allegory and aligns him with Swift, Voltaire, Balzac, and Dickens as one of the world's arch - satirists. 'Dead Souls provides an attentive reader with. that Gogolian gusto and wealth of weird detail which lift the whole thing to the level of a tremendous epic poem. ' - Vladimir Nabokov inventory #31217, 0<

1942, ISBN: 32bcf3d329d6db6c3c179c9ad6efb3c9

Heritage Press: Heritage Press. 1942. hardcover. B009988; 484 PP, hc, g, nj ., Heritage Press, 1942, 0