Dead Souls -

Nikolai Gogol

Penguin Classics

2004

512 páginas

17h 4m

ISBN-13: 9780140448078

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. In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the devilish con man Chichikov.

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Pavel Chichikov tries to make easy money but then finds it difficult throughout the course.
Very interesting book and worth reading!