Dead Souls
- ISBN-10
- 039300600X
- ISBN-13
- 9780393006001
- Series
- Dead Souls
- Category
- Russia
- Pages
- 484
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1971
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Николай Васильевич Гоголь
Description
A comic masterpiece about Chechikov, a trafficker in souls (adult male serfs), who can still be of profit even when dead.
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