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Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1842
Originally in
Originally in Russian
Pages
Pages 400

A smooth operator tours provincial Russia buying the papers of dead serfs still on the tax rolls, and every landowner he flatters is a fresh portrait of the country's soul.

Russia, whither flyest thou? Answer! She gives no answer.
Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol

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