![]() ![]() Poema", which contracted to merely "Dead Souls". ![]() The original title, as shown on the illustration (cover page), was "The Wanderings of Chichikov, or Dead Souls. ![]() Although the novel ends in mid-sentence (like Sterne's Sentimental Journey), it is regarded by some as complete in the extant form. Gogol intended the novel to be the first part of a three-volume work, but burned the manuscript of the second part shortly before his death. Gogol himself saw his work as an " epic poem in prose", and within the book characterised it as a " novel in verse". These people typify the Russian middle aristocracy of the time. The novel chronicles the travels and adventures of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov (Russian: Павел Иванович Чичиков) and the people whom he encounters. Dead Souls ( Russian: «Мёртвые души» (pre-1918: Мертвыя души), Mjórtvyje dúshi) is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. ![]()
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