TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gogolʹ,Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich
TI  - Dead souls
AV  - PZ3 .G558D27 1961
PY  - 1961///]
CY  - [New York]
PB  - New American Library
KW  - Fiction
N1  - Dead Souls is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy. Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these "souls" as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman
ER  -