Dead Souls
Publisher: Random House
Published: January 2000
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780394309828
First sentence: A rather handsome, light traveling carriage on springs rolled into the gates of an inn in a certain provincial capital, the kind of carriage that is favored by bachelors: retired lieutenant colonels, second captains, landowners possessing a hundred souls or so of serfs-in a word, all those who are called the fair-to-middlin' sort.