Review: Dead Souls
Gebruikersrecensie - Martin - GoodreadsI didn't get this book at all. I have seen a lot of smart-looking people carrying the Penguin classic around, so I wanted to see what it was about. I think maybe it helps to be Russian to understand ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Dead Souls
Gebruikersrecensie - Jesse - GoodreadsThe introduction to your copy of this book might give a brief history of Gogol's life: he was not respected for most of his writing career, then he wrote Dead Souls, then he burned most of the second ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Dead Souls
Gebruikersrecensie - Ann - GoodreadsThe beginning was promising. And it was not bad in the middle as there was suspence in the book – why the dead souls. But the ending was a real disappointment. As I understand this was planned to be a ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Dead Souls
Gebruikersrecensie - Daniel Pecheur - GoodreadsClearly this is a key work in the canon of Russian lit. and anyone who is thoroughly interested in the development of Russian literature should appreciate the influence of Gogol, who certainly had an ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Dead Souls
Gebruikersrecensie - Todd Martin - GoodreadsDead Souls is ostensibly about the buying and selling (on paper) of deceased peasants by an individual attempting to make himself appear as though he were a wealthy landholder. But really this is just ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Dead Souls
Gebruikersrecensie - Robert Lewis - GoodreadsI learned some things about Russia. That's all I can really say about this book. I could have stopped after the first 50 pages and not missed anything. Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Dead Souls
Gebruikersrecensie - Anna - GoodreadsA very hard to read book, although I'm sure everyone of us know at least one person of all described in the book. Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Dead Souls
Gebruikersrecensie - Dan - GoodreadsEver since I was a kid I always loved astronomy. I remember when Haley's Comet flew by (very disappointing), I remember watching another comet hit Jupiter (much cooler), I will always remember where I ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Dead Souls
Gebruikersrecensie - Stephen - GoodreadsAn intriguing, unfinished book (there are two volumes, with the second unfinished, and unreleasedin Gogol's lifetime). A satirical novel which explores Russian society, and particularly the ruling and ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Dead Souls
Gebruikersrecensie - Joel - GoodreadsGogol's novel follows a mysterious, but believed-to-be-respectable, man as he rambles through the Russian countryside buying legal ownership of dead serfs (who are technically considered to be alive ... Volledige recensie lezen
