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Dead Souls (Collector's Edition) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket)
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781998736294
Publisher: Revive Classics
Published: Feb 25 2025
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A mysterious traveler arrives in a sleepy Russian town, his pockets empty but his ambitions grand. With silver-tongued charm, he persuades wealthy landowners to sell him something utterly worthless-dead souls, the names of serfs who still exist on paper but have long since perished. His scheme, both brilliant and absurd, promises fortune and power, but as he weaves his web of deception, cracks begin to show. What follows is a darkly comic journey through a world of vanity, corruption, and delusion, where appearances are everything and reality is merely an inconvenience.
Blending biting satire with surreal comedy, Dead Souls captures the moral and bureaucratic decay of 19th-century Russia. Gogol's sharp critique of social corruption, greed, and hollow ambition laid the groundwork for Russian literary realism, influencing writers like Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. More than just a novel, it became a mirror reflecting the absurdities of an empire drowning in red tape and pretense. Even today, its themes of deception, status obsession, and systemic dysfunction remain strikingly relevant.
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