TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gogol,Nikolai Vasilevich
AU  - Buek,Otto
AU  - Buek,Otto
AU  - Bugow,S.
AU  - Spiro,Mario
TI  - Sämmtliche Werke 2: Die Abenteuer Tschitschikows oder Die toten Seelen II
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; 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
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N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54263
ER  -