TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gogol,Nikolai Vasilevich
AU  - Hogarth,D.J.
TI  - Dead Souls
AV  - PG 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Satire
KW  - Humorous stories
KW  - Russia -- Social life and customs -- 1533-1917 -- Fiction
KW  - Swindlers and swindling -- Russia -- Fiction
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Souls; Release date is 1997-10-01; John Bickers, and David Widger; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Dead Souls" by Nikolai Gogol is a novel first published in 1842. It follows Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a mysterious gentleman who arrives in a small Russian town with a peculiar scheme: to purchase "dead souls"—serfs who have died but still exist on paper for tax purposes. As he charms local officials and landowners, his bizarre transactions raise suspicions. Through absurd satire, Gogol exposes the moral rot and social dysfunction of Russia's middle aristocracy, creating unforgettable caricatures of greed, pretension, and vulgarity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1081
ER  -