Dead Souls (Cuppa Classics)
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Dead Souls (Cuppa Classics)
Author: Nikolai Gogol
Brand: The Browser
Edition: Classic Edition
Binding: paperback
Number Of Pages: 360
Release Date: 01-01-2025
Details: 'For human passions are as numberless as is the sand of the seashore, and go on to become his most insistent of masters.'
A stranger arrives in a provincial Russian town with impeccable manners and a peculiar business plan: he wishes to buy the names of dead peasants. Not their land, not their belongings—only their souls, still counted on official records. As his scheme quietly unfolds, Gogol opens a window onto an entire society caught in its own absurd routines.
Part comedy, part social portrait, part moral fable, Dead Souls is populated with greedy landlords, hollow officials, and a hero whose respectability masks something unsettling. The novel exposes a world where paperwork matters more than people, reputation more than character, and appearance more than truth.
At once funny and unsettling, Gogol’s masterpiece reveals how easily a society can mistake emptiness for success. Beneath its humour runs a sharp question: what happens when human lives are reduced to entries in a ledger?
EAN: 9789349042391
Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.0 x 0.9 inches
Languages: English
