Gogol's Dead Souls (1842) is considered one of the original Russian literary masterpieces, from which nearly all subsequent Russian masterpieces have grown "like the limbs of a single tree." The translation is by D. J. Hogarth.
Author's Preface
Part I - Chapter I
Part I - Chapter II
Part I - Chapter III
Part I - Chapter IV
Part I - Chapter V
Part I - Chapter VI
Part I - Chapter VII
Part I - Chapter VIII
Part I - Chapter IX
Part I - Chapter X
Part I - Chapter XI
Part II - Chapter I
Part II - Chapter II
Part II - Chapter III
Part II - Chapter IV
Footnotes