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1 online resource (1 audio file (960 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Arthur Morey. |
| Summary |
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. In this ebullient masterpiece, Nikolai Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the devilish con man Chichikov. Dead Souls, Russia's first major novel, is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy.This version of Dead Souls is the translation by C. J. Hogarth. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Russia (Federation) -- Social life and customs -- 1533-1917 -- Fiction.
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Swindlers and swindling -- Russia -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Humorous fiction.
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| Added Author |
Morey, Arthur. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781452621227 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1452621225 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10755653 |
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