description: Although largely composed by Gogol during self-imposed exile in Italy in the late 1830s, this work remains perhaps the most essentially "Russian" of novels. The reader follows Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant turned confidence man, through the countryside in pursuit of his shady enterprise.
title: Dead Souls
titlecomplete: Dead Souls
characters: Pavel Ivanovitch Tchitchikof
genres: Literature, Classics, Novels, Russian Literature, 19th Century, Russia, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Humor, Classic Literature
ratings_count: 81896
places: Russia
publisher: Naxos Audio Books