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Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol

Chichikov, a mysterious gentleman, travels across Russia buying "dead souls" (deceased serfs) from landowners. Gogol's satirical masterpiece exposes the absurdities of bureaucracy and human greed in 19th-century Russia.

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