{"product_id":"dead-souls-9781533115195","title":"Dead Souls","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): D. J. Hogarth\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Russian \u0026amp; Soviet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince its publication in 1842, Dead Souls 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45535674925207,"sku":"9781533115195","price":1244.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781533115195.webp?v=1767174611","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dead-souls-9781533115195","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}