Sämmtliche Werke 2: Die Abenteuer Tschitschikows oder Die toten Seelen II by Gogol
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"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.)
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| Author | Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich, 1809-1852 |
|---|---|
| Editor | Buek, Otto, 1873-1966 |
| Translator | Buek, Otto, 1873-1966 |
| Translator | Bugow, S. |
| Translator | Spiro, Mario, 1883-1960 |
| Title | Sämmtliche Werke 2: Die Abenteuer Tschitschikows oder Die toten Seelen II |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_toten_Seelen |
| Contents | Die Abenteuer des Grafen Tschitschikows oder die Toten Seelen. Zweiter Teil -- Der Mantel -- Die Nase -- Das Porträt. |
| Credits |
Produced by Jens Sadowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 78.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature |
| Subject | Satire |
| Subject | Humorous stories |
| Subject | Russia -- Social life and customs -- 1533-1917 -- Fiction |
| Subject | Swindlers and swindling -- Russia -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 54263 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-54263-8 |
| Release Date | Mar 1, 2017 |
| Last Update | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 386 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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