Dead Souls (Everyman's Library) (HB) by Nikolai Gogol, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) aching need within us

aching need within us

fate played its dirty trick again and brought them face to face

Considered Dickens' harshest indictment of mid-19th-century industrial practices and their dehumanizing effects

he would trade his life for the chance to hold them in his handsAkutagawa (1892-1927) was one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose stories are marked by original imagery

Whether it's why women should enforce a "90-Day Probation Period" before they give their men sexual "benefits"-the way Ford motor company withholds medical and dental benefits until an employee has been on the job for 3 months-or explaining to women why men would rather "fix it" than talk about it

Dead Souls (Everyman's Library) (HB) by Nikolai Gogol, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) aching need within usSince its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls" deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them we