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The novel Lead Leg Runners was published in 1957. It's a story about a war veteran who returns to his hometown, after his writing career failed. The novel has autobiographical elements.
This symbolic title, taken from one of Kipling's poems, gives us a hint that the action of that novel is closely connected with the sea.
The novel is set during the French Revolution, more precisely during the Jacobin reign of terror, in the years after the execution of King Louis XVI, while Queen Marie Antoinette was imprisoned in the Temple prison.
Dead Souls (1842) is a brilliant satire that exposes the moral and social rot of imperial Russia through Chichikov's fraud with dead serfs, with Gogol's virtuoso mix of humor, irony and lyricism.
