Dead Souls
Subtitle: A Poem (Oxford World's Classics)
Contributors: Robert A. Maguire (Introduction)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: September 11, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780192818379
First sentence: Into the gates of the inn in the provincial capital NN there drove a small but rather handsome sprung chaise of the kind affected by bachelors, such as retired lieutenant colonels, staff-captains, land-owners possessed of some one hundred souls-in a word, by all those regarded as gentlemen of the middle estate.