{"product_id":"gogol-nikolai-dead-souls-9780679776444","title":"Dead Souls","description":"Since 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. This lively, idiomatic English version by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessible the full extent of the novel's lyricism, sulphurous humor, and delight in human oddity and error.","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53416314536278,"sku":"9780679776444-G","price":10.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780679776444_1.jpg?v=1778091494","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/gogol-nikolai-dead-souls-9780679776444","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}