{"product_id":"dead-souls","title":"Dead Souls","description":"Since its publication in 1842, \u003cb\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/b\u003e has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for \"dead souls\"--deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them--we are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov's proposition. This lively, idiomatic English version by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessible the full extent of the novel's lyricism, sulphurous humor, and delight in human oddity and error.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0679776443\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780679776444\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Gogol, Nikolai, Pevear, Richard, Volokhonsky, Larissa\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Mar 1997)","offer_id":46356694565061,"sku":"9780679776444","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780679776444.jpg?v=1781310046","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/dead-souls","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}