Dead Souls

Dead Souls

by Nikolai Gogol

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 1997 · 432 pages

A cunning traveler arrives in a provincial Russian town with an audacious scheme: to buy the names of deceased serfs, who are still counted as living property. Through this audacious hustle, Nikolai Gogol paints a darkly comic panorama of greed, absurdity, and the peculiar soul of 19th-century Russia. Readers who enjoy biting satire and unforgettable characters will be captivated by this enduring masterpiece.

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