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Мёртвые души

By Николай Васильевич Гоголь (1809—1852)

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Cover: Ямская тройка на зимней дороге (Post troika on a winter road) by Nikolai Sverchkov (1817–1898) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

The smooth, ingratiating Chichikov travels from landowner to landowner buying the names of dead serfs who still count on the tax rolls, a scheme he hopes will make him rich. Gogol's comic epic of provincial Russia, here its complete first volume, is a gallery of grotesque squires, each more absurd than the last. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Глава I
  2. 2: Глава II
  3. 3: Глава III
  4. 4: Глава IV
  5. 5: Глава V
  6. 6: Глава VI
  7. 7: Глава VII
  8. 8: Глава VIII
  9. 9: Глава IX
  10. 10: Глава X
  11. 11: Глава XI