About the Book: Dead Souls
Gogols hilarious and scathing satire of Imperial Russia, freshly repackaged for
the Union Square and Co. Signature Editions line. Pavel Ivanovitch Tchitchikov,
a mysterious and charming gentleman, arrives in a provincial Russian town with a
curious business proposition. In a bid to build a new fortune, he plans to
purchase the names of "dead souls"—serfs who have died since the last census but
are still legally a landowners property. As Tchitchikov travels the countryside,
he encounters a gallery of eccentric, corrupt landowners, offering a grotesque
and comic glimpse into the moral rot at the heart of Imperial Russia. A biting,
lyrical, and