: A compulsive liar, gambler, and bully who nearly ruins the entire scheme.

: A hoarder so consumed by miserliness that his estate is crumbling and his own family is starving. 🔥 Why You Should Read It Today Dead Souls - ...on the B.L.

: Because censuses were conducted years apart, landowners kept paying taxes on serfs who had died in the interim.

What if you could buy people who didn't exist to make yourself a millionaire? That is the exact premise of Nikolai Gogol’s 1842 masterpiece, Dead Souls . Part scam artist's travelogue, part blistering social satire, it remains one of the most bizarre and brilliant stories in world literature. 🧮 The Absurdity of the Scam

: A man so sweet and sentimental that his mindless daydreaming borders on toxic detachment from reality.

: A paranoid, superstitious widow who is terrified of being cheated on the price of her dead serfs.

: The landowners get a tax break, and Chichikov plans to take his massive list of paper serfs to a bank, mortgage them as if they are living property, and buy himself a real estate empire. 🎭 A Gallery of Grotesques

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: A compulsive liar, gambler, and bully who nearly ruins the entire scheme.

: A hoarder so consumed by miserliness that his estate is crumbling and his own family is starving. 🔥 Why You Should Read It Today Dead Souls - ...on the B.L. Dead Souls

: Because censuses were conducted years apart, landowners kept paying taxes on serfs who had died in the interim. : A compulsive liar, gambler, and bully who

: A man so sweet and sentimental that his mindless daydreaming borders on toxic detachment from reality.

: A paranoid, superstitious widow who is terrified of being cheated on the price of her dead serfs.