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Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Tom Weiner

Dead Souls

(Blackstone Pub Nov. 1, 2009) , Unabridged Edition

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town with a bizarre but seductive proposition for local landowners. He proposes to buy the names of their serfs who have died but who are still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them. But what collateral will he receive for these "souls"?

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1433295210 / 9781433295218
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