Although largely composed by Gogol during self-imposed exile in Italy in the late 1830s, this work remains perhaps the most essentially Russian of novels. The reader follows Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant turned confidence man, through the countryside in pursuit of his shady enterprise.
- ISBN10 0486426823
- ISBN13 9780486426822
- Publish Date 28 September 2003 (first published 28 January 1971)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Dover Publications Inc.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English