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This two-volume novel follows the life of the main character, a young officer, through various events and challenges.
The novel is woven from memories of youth, with a refreshing recall of events as if they happened yesterday.
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.
It was to protect Gina's reputation that Jonas had told the little lie. She had often gone off with younger men since their wedding.
The very title of the novel tells us how Kozarac was preoccupied with the uncultivated, dead land that is waiting for a man, a hardworking peasant, who will cultivate it. He called it "dead capital".
Written during a nostalgic interval during Cooper's stormy battles with the Whig Press, The Deerslayer (1841) is the last of the world-famous Leatherstocking Tales in point of composition, though first in the biographical sequence.