Written by Nicolai Gogol - Audio book performed by Gordon Griffin - Russian music intertwined throughout the narration - Abridged Fiction - 4 COMPACT DISCS - 5 hours Publisher, Naxos Audiobooks (July 2003) Gogol's great 1842 classic is a comic masterpiece and one of the major works of Russian literature. When Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov takes up a new residence, he is set to carry out his bizarre plan to purchase the souls of dead peasants that once inhabited the town. Dead Souls takes a sharp but humorous look at life in all its strata, but especially the devious complexities in the country with its landowners and serfs. |
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