{"product_id":"2940012863126","title":"Dead Souls - Full Version (Annotated)","description":"Dead Souls is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. Gogol himself saw it as an \"epic poem in prose\", and within the book as a \"novel in verse\". Despite supposedly completing the trilogy's second part, Gogol destroyed it shortly before his death. Although the novel ends in mid-sentence (like Sterne's Sentimental Journey), it is usually regarded as complete in the extant form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince 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.","brand":"G Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145466790128,"sku":"2940012863126","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012863126_p0.jpg?v=1763573614","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012863126","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}