Dead Souls -- Nikolai Gogol

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dead Souls Author: Nikolai Gogol Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 57 minutes Release date: July 23, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Regarded as the first great masterpiece of Russian literature, Dead Souls mixes realism and symbolism for a vivid and highly original portrait of Russian life. Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town with a bizarre but seductive proposition for local landowners. He proposes to buy the names of their serfs who have died but who are still registered on the census, thereby saving their owners from paying taxes on them. But what collateral will Chichikov receive for these 'souls'? What dubious scheme lies behind his actions? Full of larger-than-life Dickensian characters—rogues and scoundrels, landowners and serfs, conniving petty officials, and the wily antihero Chichikov—Dead Souls is a devastating comic satire on social hypocrisy.