An NYRB Classics Original The first of the great Russian novels and one of the indisputable masterpieces of world literature, *Dead Souls* is the tale of Chichikov, an affably cunning con man who causes consternation in a small Russian town when he shows up out of nowhere proposing to buy titl
Dead souls: an epic poem: A Novel (Vintage Classics)
โ Scribed by Gogol, Nikolai
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 271 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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