TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gogol,Nikolai Vasilevich
AU  - Buek,Otto
AU  - Buek,Otto
TI  - Sämmtliche Werke 1: Die Abenteuer Tschitschikows oder Die toten Seelen I
AV  - PG 
PY  - 2017///
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://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_toten_Seelen; Release date is 2017-03-01; Produced by Jens Sadowski and the Online Distributed
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N2  - "Die Abenteuer Tschitschikows oder Die toten Seelen I" by Nikolai Gogol is a novel published in 1842. The story follows Pawel Iwanowitsch Tschitschikow, a cunning opportunist determined to enrich himself through an audacious scheme. He travels through provincial Russia purchasing "dead souls"—deceased serfs still listed on official records—to use as collateral for state loans. Through satirical encounters with eccentric landowners, Gogol exposes the corruption, absurdity, and moral decay of the Russian landed gentry in pre-revolutionary Russia. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54262
ER  -