Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
“He’s buying the dead to live like a king.”
Pavel Chichikov is sweeping through the Russian countryside with a bizarre business proposition: he wants to buy your dead serfs. This biting satire follows a charming swindler through a gallery of grotesque eccentrics in a hunt for status that is as hilarious as it is haunting. It is the ultimate dark comedy about the lengths a man will go to for a phantom fortune.
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