For further reading: Nikolai Gogol by Vladimir Nabokov (1944); Gogol: A Life by David Magarshack (1957); Gogol: His Life and Works by Vsevolod Setchkarev (1965); The Smile and Gogol's ...
Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души) by Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-born Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of 19th-century ...