Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol

304 pages first pub 1842 (editions)

fiction classics literary funny reflective slow-paced
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A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service and for whom they must continue to pay taxes until the next census. The ...

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