Dead Souls [Audiobook] download free by Nikolai Gogol
- Listen audiobook: Dead Souls
- Author: Nikolai Gogol
- Release date: 2010/9/28
- Publisher: WORDSWORTH EDITIONS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Fiction
- ISBN: 9781840226379
- Rating: 8.65 of 10
- Votes: 252
- Review by: Regina Talbott
- Review rating: 8.33 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/4
- Duration: 6H8M42S in 256 kbps (99.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-30
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, FLAC, OPUS, MPEG4, MP3, WAV (compression IMG, TAR.GZ, ZIP, CAB, RAR, CHM)
- Total pages original book: 496
- Includes a PDF summary of 42 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 28M52S (8.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: With an Introduction by Anthony Briggs. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood.Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up 'dead souls'. These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain on the record and still attract a tax demand. Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russia. Will he get away with it? Who will rumble him? Does this narrative contain a deeper message about Russia itself or the spiritual health of humanity?There is much interest and some suspense in considering these issues, but the real pleasure of this story lies elsewhere. It is an enjoyable comic romp through a retarded part of a backward country, a picaresque series of grotesque portraits, situations and conversations described with Gogolian humour based mainly on hyperbole. This is, quite simply, the funniest book in the Russian language before the twentieth century.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Fiction In Translation, Classic Books & Novels
- Download servers: CloudBuckIt, MEGA, Uploaded, Mediafire, FileServe. Compressed in IMG, TAR.GZ, ZIP, CAB, RAR, CHM
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 6.75 USD
- Dimensions: 126x196x30mm
- Weight: 340.19g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Herts, United Kingdom
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