Celebrated Translations -- Dead Souls (Color Illustrations Edition)

Author: (Russian) Gogol
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: "Dead Souls" is an "unparalleled work in the history of Russian literature" and a significant milestone in the Russian literary tradition's journey toward originality and national identity. Its publication was like a thunderclap echoing across the vast sky, "shaking the entire Russia." Gogol was a renowned 19th-century Russian playwright and novelist. With his "extreme fidelity to life" in realism, vivid and lifelike typical characters, and a satirical style that combines humor with tears, he became the "pioneer of the realist school." "Dead Souls" was selected for the "Personal Ideal Book Collection" recommended by France's magazine L'.