Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Dead Souls by Nikolai GogolA mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town and proceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual and somewhat macabre proposition. He offers to buy the rights to the dead serfs who are still registered on the landowner's estate, thus reducing their liability for taxes. It is not clear what Chichikov's intentions are with the dead serfs he is purchasing, and despite his attempts to

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and inhabiting this identity - for better or worse - in order to survive

A few score thousand survivors live on

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her home for the next twenty-five years

With his father now in prison

Katie Hickey's gentle

We examine the lives of civilians who are not aware of the impending danger