02215cam a22004093u 4500 54263 UtSlPG 20260610134242.0 m cr n 260607r2017||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG de iso639-1 PG Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich, 1809-1852 Sämmtliche Werke 2: Die Abenteuer Tschitschikows oder Die toten Seelen II Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2017 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_toten_Seelen Release date is 2017-03-01 Die Abenteuer des Grafen Tschitschikows oder die Toten Seelen. Zweiter Teil -- Der Mantel -- Die Nase -- Das Porträt. Produced by Jens Sadowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library. "Die Abenteuer Tschitschikows oder Die toten Seelen II" by Gogol is a novel published in 1842. The protagonist, Tschitschikow, devises a cunning scheme to acquire wealth by purchasing "dead souls"—deceased serfs still listed on official registers. He travels through provincial Russia, negotiating with various eccentric landowners to buy these phantom peasants, planning to use them as collateral for state loans. Gogol's satirical masterwork exposes the corruption and absurdities of Russian aristocratic society through Tschitschikow's morally dubious adventures. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Satire Humorous stories Russia -- Social life and customs -- 1533-1917 -- Fiction Swindlers and swindling -- Russia -- Fiction Buek, Otto, 1873-1966 Buek, Otto, 1873-1966 Bugow, S. Spiro, Mario, 1883-1960 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54263 95097 95097