Dead Souls

Name: Dead Souls
Author: Nikolai Gogol

by Nikolai Gogol

Satirical epic about a landowner purchasing deceased serfs for financial gain

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Nikolai Gogol

Ukrainian-born Russian author whose satirical fiction defined the critical realism that would dominate Russian literature. Dead Souls and his short stories exposed the absurdities and corruption of Russian provincial life.

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