Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Dead Souls, Vol. 1: A Poem by Nikolai Gogol
The in?uence of Gogol may be traced in all the great writers that came after him. His realism, his humanity and irony, his 'laughter through tears have given to all that is best in Russian litera ture its distinctive character.
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