# Dead Souls

Author: Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich, 1809-1852; Hogarth, D. J. [Translator]

Genre: Best Books Ever Listings

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1081

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Dead+Souls+Gogol&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, “the Russian novel,” not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the limbs of a single tree. Dostoieffsky goes so far as to bestow this tribute upon an earlier work by the same author, a short story entitled The Cloak; this idea has been wittily expressed by another compatriot, who says: “We have all issued out of Gogol’s Cloak.”

## Chapters

- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dead-souls-1081/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dead-souls-1081/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dead-souls-1081/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dead-souls-1081/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dead-souls-1081/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dead-souls-1081/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dead-souls-1081/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dead-souls-1081/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dead-souls-1081/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dead-souls-1081/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dead-souls-1081/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dead-souls-1081/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dead-souls-1081/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dead-souls-1081/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dead-souls-1081/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dead-souls-1081/chapters/14/index.md)