GOGOL (Nicolas). Les Âmes mortes. Paris, Hachette, 1859. 2 volumes in-12, paperback. First edition of the first French translation, published by Ernest Charrière, who preceded it with Considérations sur Nicolas Gogol et la littérature russe. A masterpiece of Russian literature, Dead Souls is Gogol's masterpiece. The novel was published in Russian in Moscow in 1842. A paperback copy, as issued, complete with the Railway Library catalogue.