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100 1 _aGogol, Nikolai Vasilevich,
_d1809-1852
240 1 0 _aMertvye dushi. English
245 1 0 _aDead Souls
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c1997
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Souls
500 _aRelease date is 1997-10-01
508 _aJohn Bickers, and David Widger
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aSatire
653 _aHumorous stories
653 _aRussia -- Social life and customs -- 1533-1917 -- Fiction
653 _aSwindlers and swindling -- Russia -- Fiction
700 1 _aHogarth, D. J.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1081
999 _c43197
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