...Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Translation by D. J. Hogarth Introduction by John Cournos A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Translation by D. J. Hogarth Introduction by John Cournos A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIE... ... SERIES PUBLICATION Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, trans. D. J. Hogarth, with an introduction by John Cournos is a publication of the Penns... ...rans. D. J. Hogarth, with an introduction by John Cournos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ittle about women, who played an equally minor role in his life and in his books. This may be partly because his personal appearance was not preposses... ...cherished a yearning for self- education. That is to say, he loved to read books, even though their contents came alike to him whether they were books... ... glory—so much so that foreigners marvelled at it), peasants on the census lists who had ended their earthly careers were nevertheless, on the renderi... ...had ended their earthly careers were nevertheless, on the rendering of new lists, returned equally with the living, to the end that the courts might b...

...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown o...