{"product_id":"9780679776444","title":"Dead Souls","description":"Since its publication in 1842, \u003cb\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/b\u003e 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":"Nikolai Gogol","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":56851973505184,"sku":"9780679776444","price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3d5e4e5d-015b-41fb-8cb1-246863b03af6.jpg?v=1774294291","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780679776444","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}