Dead Souls

No book-club issue applies to a book of this date. The reprint tells are edition-level: a second Russian edition followed in 1846 carrying Gogol's added preface, and posthumous collected-works printings follow from the 1850s — any preface by Gogol addressing the reader marks a copy as 1846 or later, not the 1842 first. In English, later nineteenth-century translations (e.g. the 1887 illustrated edition) are separate editions and not reissues of the 1854 Home Life in Russia.