{"product_id":"dead-souls-audiobook","title":"Dead Souls (Audiobook)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince its publication in 1842, \u003cb\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/b\u003e 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 are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov's proposition. This lively, idiomatic English version by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessible the full extent of the novel's lyricism, sulphurous humor, and delight in human oddity and error.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis audiobook is expertly read by Alan Turton, with audio engineering by Raconteurs. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books \u0026amp; Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCopyright (C) 1996 Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Recorded by arrangement with Pantheon Books, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. (P) (2025) Echo Point Books \u0026amp; Media, LLC.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Echo Point Books \u0026 Media, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":45791115772077,"sku":"9798349124983","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0700\/9134\/1997\/files\/9798349124983.jpg?v=1772823648","url":"https:\/\/www.echopointbooks.com\/products\/dead-souls-audiobook","provider":"Echo Point Books \u0026 Media","version":"1.0","type":"link"}