"Dead Souls" is a novel by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol that tells the story of a man named Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, who travels through the Russian countryside purchasing the "souls" of…

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Although largely composed by Gogol during self-imposed exile in Italy in the late 1830s, this work remains perhaps the most essentially Russian of novels. The reader follows Chichikov, a dismissed…

A new translation offers thirteen satirical and fantastic stories of downtrodden characters who are set upon by the powers that be.

A comic masterpiece about Chechikov, a trafficker in souls (adult male serfs), who can still be of profit even when dead.

A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their dead souls, the serfs who have died in their service and…

The story of a penniless nobody from Moscow who is mistaken for a government inspector by the corrupt and self-seeking officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia, The Government…