Dead Souls (Record no. 18012)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 01196nam a2200181 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780307797810 |
| 024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 775608492 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PG3333 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 891.733 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Nikolai Gogol |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Dead Souls |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Vintage |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 432 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"--deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them--we are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov's proposition. This lively, idiomatic English version by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessible the full extent of the novel's lyricism, sulphurous humor, and delight in human oddity and error. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Satire |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Politics |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 12/30/2023 | TP GOGO | 68579 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |