page_title: Dead Souls
hierarchical_section_title: Dead Souls
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover page of the first edition of the "Dead Souls" by N. Gogol. Moscow, 1842 Русский: Заглавный лист первого издания романа Н. В. Гоголя ""Похождения Чичикова, или мертвые души." Поэма Н. Гоголя. М., 1842.
context_page_description: Dead Souls is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The novel chronicles the travels and adventures of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov and the people whom he encounters. These people typify the Russian middle-class of the time. Gogol himself saw his work as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book characterised it as a "novel in verse". Despite supposedly completing the trilogy's second part, Gogol destroyed it shortly before his death. Although the novel ends in mid-sentence, it is usually regarded as complete in the extant form.
context_section_description: Dead Souls (Russian: «Мёртвые души», Mjórtvyje dúshi) is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The novel chronicles the travels and adventures of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov (Russian: Павел Иванович Чичиков) and the people whom he encounters. These people typify the Russian middle-class of the time. Gogol himself saw his work as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book characterised it as a "novel in  verse". Despite supposedly completing the trilogy's second part, Gogol  destroyed it shortly before his death. Although the novel ends in mid-sentence (like  Sterne's  Sentimental Journey), it is usually regarded as complete in the extant form.
caption: Cover page of the first edition of Dead Souls. Moscow, 1842
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