More detailsĪnyone can contribute to make a Standard Ebook better for everyone! Remove semantics from to conform to epub spec Remove unnecessary display-seq in metadata Remove 'se:role' metadata in favor of 'role' available in EPUB 3.3 Read about which file to download and how to transfer them to your ereader. You may also be interested in our Kobo FAQ.Īdvanced epub â An advanced format that uses the latest technology not yet fully supported by most ereaders. Also download the Kindle cover thumbnail to see the cover in your Kindleâs library. The novel as it stands ends in mid sentence but is regarded as complete.Ĭompatible epub â All devices and apps except Kindles and Kobos.Īzw3 â Kindle devices and apps. Originally planned as a trilogy, Gogol apparently only completed the first two parts, and destroyed the latter half of the second part before his death. The novelâs satirical take on the state of Russian society at the time leads Chichikov into increasingly difficult circumstances, in his attempts to cheat both the system and the cavalcade of townspeople he meets along the way. The story charts his scheme to purchase dead soulsâthe titles of deceased serfsâfrom wealthy landowners. Standard Ebooksġ42,416 words (8 hours 38 minutes) with a reading ease of 66.88 (average difficulty)ĭead Souls is Nikolai Gogolâs last novel, and follows the tale of Pavel Chichikov, a down-on-his-luck gentleman determined to improve his lot in life. Hogarth - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. This is, quite simply, the funniest book in the Russian language before the twentieth century.Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol. It is an enjoyable comic romp through a retarded part of a backward country, a picaresque series of grotesque portraits, situations and conversations described with Gogolian humour based mainly on hyperbole. There is much interest and some suspense in considering these issues, but the real pleasure of this story lies elsewhere. Will he get away with it? Who will rumble him? Does this narrative contain a deeper message about Russia itself or the spiritual health of humanity? What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russia. Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain on the record and still attract a tax demand. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up 'dead souls'. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly.

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