[Dead Souls] Home Life in Russia By a Russian Nobel. Revised by the Editor of "Revelations of Siberia."

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First edition in English of Gogol's masterpiece Dead Souls which is widely hailed as one of the most important works of 19th-century Russian literature. Two volumes. A fantastic copy, bound in publisher's original olive green cloth decoratively stamped in blind and spines lettered in gilt. Near Fine or better with slight lean to the bindings, spine cloth faded and with light soiling to the foot of Volume II. Old bookseller ticket to front pastedowns and contemporary owner name and date to top margin of title pages in both volumes, content with light and sporadic age-spotting. A beautiful set of books not typically found in such exquisite condition. The novel chronicles the travels and adventures of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov and the people he encounter who typify the Russian middle aristocracy of the time. Gogol himself saw his work as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book characterized it as a "novel in verse". He intended the novel to be the first part of a three-volume work, but burned the manuscript of the second part shortly before his death. Although the novel ends in mid-sentence it is regarded by some as complete in the extant form. N° de ref. del artículo 140945052

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