Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, D. J. Hogarth

276 pages first pub 1842 (editions)

fiction classics literary funny reflective slow-paced
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Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy. Set in Russia before the emancipation of serfs in 1861, the "dead souls" are dead serfs still being counted by landowners as property, as well as referring to the landowners' morality. Through surrea...

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