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Dead souls.

By:

Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: [New York] New American Library [1961]Description: xii, 278 p. 18 cmSubject(s):

Fiction

LOC classification:

PZ3 .G558D27 1961

List(s) this item appears in: Communication Skills

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOK	Kitale ODEL Library General Stacks	BK	PZ3 .G558D27 1961 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		MKU23521

Dead Souls is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy. Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these "souls" as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman

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