Wow it's been a while since I had not read a classic. Dead souls have filled me. Funny, caustic and entertaining, we follow the wanderings of a person who travels a province in Russia in search of staff. By meeting, Gogol presents a nice vision of social classes of Russia at the time. There's snow, the Chow booze, philosophy, sleds, reflections on money, there is the whole of Russia in a lively book Gogol, when I crazy to think that these manuscripts burned twice . Ahead of its time, beautiful! In this edition, There are a nifty folder, where I learned that particular Gogol bequeathed a portion of his income to the students, what class!