Dead Souls (Everyman's Library) (HB) by Nikolai Gogol, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) and The Time Machine

and The Time Machine

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

aching need within us

Johannes is kind yet distant

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

Dead Souls (Everyman's Library) (HB) by Nikolai Gogol, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) and The Time MachineSince 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