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: A hoarder so consumed by miserliness that his estate is crumbling and his own family is starving. 🔥 Why You Should Read It Today Dead Souls - ...on the B.L.
: Enter our protagonist, Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov . He travels the countryside offering to "buy" these dead souls on paper. Dead Souls
: A compulsive liar, gambler, and bully who nearly ruins the entire scheme. : A hoarder so consumed by miserliness that
: Because censuses were conducted years apart, landowners kept paying taxes on serfs who had died in the interim. Dead Souls
The premise of the novel hinges on a loophole in the Imperial Russian tax and legal system:
: A giant, bear-like man who is ruthlessly efficient and drives a hard bargain for his deceased property.