ALMA CLASSICS NEW BOOK INFORMATION EVERGREENS • £4.99 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol Translated by Donald Rayfi eld

“A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.”

SELLING POINTS: • Brand-new translation of Gogol’s masterpiece

• Includes pictures and an extensive section on Gogol’s life and works

• Follows the success of Gogol’s Petersburg Tales

• Fully annotated edition

DESCRIPTION: A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town and proceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual and somewhat macabre proposition. He offers to buy the rights to the dead serfs who are SERIES: Alma Classics still registered on the landowner’s estate, thus reducing their liability for taxes. It is not Evergreens clear what Chichikov’s intentions are with the dead serfs he is purchasing, and despite May 25th 2017 his attempts to ingratiate himself, his strange behaviour arouses the suspicions of every- £4.99 one in the town. 978-1-84749-628-7 512 pp • PB A biting satire of social pretensions and pomposity, Dead Souls has been revered Subject: FC since its original publication in 1842 as one of the funniest and most brilliant novels of nineteenth-century Russia. Its unfl inching and remorseless depiction of venality in Russian society is a lasting tribute to Gogol’s comic genius.

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“Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange.” Vladimir Nabokov

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: One of the leading fi gures in nineteenth-century Russian literature, Nikolai Gogol (1809–52) is best known for his satirical masterpiece, Dead Souls, and humorous plays and short stories such as The Government Inspector and The Overcoat, written in a highly original and trenchant style.

ALSO AVAILABLE BY THE SAME AUTHOR: Petersburg Tales • PB • £4.99 • 978-1-84749-349-1

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