Dead Souls (abridged)

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Nikolai Gogol

Dead Souls

Read by Gordon Griffin

abridged

Gogol’s great Russian classic is the Pickwick Papers of Russian Literature. It takes a sharp but humorous look at life in all its strata, but especially the devious complexities in the country with its landowners and serfs. We are introduced to Chichikov, a businessman who, in order to trick the tax authorities, buys up dead ‘souls’ or serfs whose names still appear on the government census. Despite being a dealer in phantom crimes and paper ghosts, he is the most beguiling of Gogol’s characters. Gogol’s obsession with attempting to display ‘the untold riches of the Russian soul’ eventually led him to madness, religious mania and death. Dismissed by him as merely ‘a pale introduction to the great epic poem which is taking shape in my mind’, Dead Souls is the culmination of Gogol’s genius.

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    Running Time: 5 h 02 m

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    ISBN:978-962-634-284-8
    Digital ISBN:978-962-954-534-5
    Cat. no.:NA428412
    Download size:73 MB
    BISAC:FIC004000
    Released:March 2003
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