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Dead Souls
book
Gogol‘, Nikolaj Vasil‘jevič, 1809-1852 - Author
Champaign, Ill. : Project Gutenberg, [199-?] - 1 online resource.
ISBN 0585006997 (electronic bk.), ISBN 9780585006994 (electronic bk.)
Uniform title Mertvye dushi. English Title statement Dead Souls [elektronický zdroj] / by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol ; tr. D.J. Hogarth. Main entry-name Gogol‘, Nikolaj Vasil‘jevič, 1809-1852 (Author) Issue data Champaign, Ill. : Project Gutenberg, [199-?] Phys.des. 1 online resource. ISBN 0585006997 (electronic bk.) 9780585006994 (electronic bk.) Subj. Headings English fiction. * Electronic books. UDC (0.034.2:08) Country Illionois Language angličtina URL EBSCOhost Document kind ELECTRONIC RESOURCES Dead Souls is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy. 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 tax on them, and to use these "souls" as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman.-Amazon.com.Loading…
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