Dead Souls

Part satire, part adventure, and part portrait of a fading society, Dead Souls follows the charming opportunist Pavel Chichikov as he travels across Russia buying the titles to deceased serfs. Through wit, absurdity, and unforgettable characters, Gogol exposes the vanity, greed, and corruption of provincial life. Widely regarded as one of the great classics of Russian literature, Dead Souls is both deeply comic and strikingly modern. This edition has been modernised to contemporary English spelling and orthography, with a small number of archaic expressions updated for clarity.