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Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (1842)
Chichikov, a charming con man, travels through provincial Russia buying "dead souls" — serfs who have died but still appear on the census rolls — as collateral for a fraudulent mortgage scheme. Russia's greatest satirical novel.
Historical Significance:
Gogol published Part One of Dead Souls in 1842, intending a three-part work modeled on Dante's Divine Comedy: Part One as Inferno (Russia's corruption), Part Two as Purgatorio (moral awakening), and Part Th...
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Chichikov, a charming con man, travels through provincial Russia buying "dead souls" — serfs who have died but still appear on the census rolls — as collateral for a fraudulent mortgage scheme. Russia's greatest satirical novel.
Historical Significance:
Gogol published Part One of Dead Souls in 1842, intending a three-part work modeled on Dante's Divine Comedy: Part One as Inferno (Russia's corruption), Part Two as Purgatorio (moral awakening), and Part Th...
Read free on BoingyBooks: https://boingybooks.com/marketplace/product.php?id=223
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