Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol Annotated Edition by Nikolai Gogol

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol Annotated Edition

Nikolai Gogol

394 pages first pub 1842 (editions)

fiction classics literary funny reflective slow-paced
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In Gogol's time, a Russian landowner could buy and sell serfs, or "souls," like any other property. The serfs were counted, for the purpose of tax assessment, every ten years. Thus, a landowner still had to pay taxes on the value of serfs who had ...

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