Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol - Dead Souls. Gift book bound in genuine leather.

In "Dead Souls" the author has made such a great step that everything he has written so far seems weak and pale in comparison with them," Belinsky wrote about Gogol's immortal creation. The plot "presented" by Pushkin provided the basis for an adventurous and roguish novel, but the traditional genre could not contain all the richness of Gogol's plan. "All Russia will appear in it," Gogol said of his future novel, which he later called a poem. Such a definition of a prose work is not accidental - the image of Russia, the three-bird bird created by the writer is so poetic. "Rus, where are you rushing to? Give me an answer. Does not give an answer...