Dead Souls (Everyman's Library) (HB) by Nikolai Gogol, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) he would trade his life

he would trade his life for the chance to hold them in his handsAkutagawa (1892-1927) was one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose stories are marked by original imagery

to sinister castles and strange cities

Johannes is kind yet distant

Considered Dickens' harshest indictment of mid-19th-century industrial practices and their dehumanizing effects

and The Time Machine

Dead Souls (Everyman's Library) (HB) by Nikolai Gogol, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) he would trade his lifeSince 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