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Dead Souls (Russian: Мертвые души) is a satirical prose narrative, subtitled poema ("an epic poem"), by the Russian author Nikolai Gogol. The first part of a projected trilogy, it was published in 1842 under the title, imposed by the censorship, of The Adventures of Chichikov.

Referred to by its author as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book ... read more