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Dead Souls

by Nikolai Gogol

Pavel Chichikov travels through Russia buying the titles of dead serfs.

Themes: Fiction · Satire

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A man who is neither handsome nor ugly, neither fat nor thin, neither young nor old steps into view. The deliberate middleness seems to whisper: don't focus on him yet; first notice the scuffed portmanteau, the beetle-ridden inn, and the silent neighbor behind the wardrobe.

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