Timeless Classics: Dead Souls

*Illustrated
*Includes a table of contents

In the Timeless Classics series, Charles River Editors is republishing civilization’s greatest literary works and bringing them to a new generation via ebooks. Timeless Classics offers a wide range of history’s greatest writing, including the acclaimed fictional stories of Jonathan Swift and Washington Irving, the political treatises of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx, the epic poetry of Homer, and more.

Nikolai Gogol was talented enough to catch the notice of not just his contemporaries but his government. Considered one of Russia’s greatest writers during his day, Gogol’s Dead Souls satirized the corruption of the Russian government enough that it forced him into exile. Dead Souls features Gogol’s classic prose and verse forms, with Gogol himself considering it epic poetry. Despite the fact that it was technically unfinished, with Gogol famously burning the second part of the manuscript, it’s still universally hailed as one of Gogol’s classics.

This edition of Dead Souls includes a table of contents and is illustrated with pictures of Gogol, his work and life.