Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
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· 58 ratings · 464 pages · Published: 1842
In a new translation of the comic classic of Russian literature, Chichikov, an enigmatic stranger and conniving schemer, buys deceased serfs' names from their landlords' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for profit and to reinvent himself as a likeable gentleman.
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