Dead Souls -

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

: Enter our protagonist, Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov . He travels the countryside offering to "buy" these dead souls on paper. What if you could buy people who didn't