| Edition |
First Vintage classics edition |
| Description |
xxiv, 402 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Vintage classics |
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Vintage classics
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| Note |
Translation of: Mertvye dushi |
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Introduction by Richard Pevear |
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"Originally published in the United States in hardcover by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1996"--Title page verso |
| Summary |
Chichikov, an amusing and often confused schemer, buys deceased serfs' names from landholders' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for profit |
| Subject |
Russia -- Social life and customs -- 1533-1917 -- Fiction
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| Genre/Form |
Humorous fiction.
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Picaresque fiction.
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Novels.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Added Author |
Pevear, Richard, 1943- editor, translator, writer of introduction
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Volokhonsky, Larissa, editor, translator
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| Added Title |
Mertvye dushi. English (Pevear and Volokhonsky)
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| ISBN |
0679776443 |
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9780679776444 (paperback) |
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