Dead Souls

<p><em>Dead Souls</em> by <strong>Nikolai Gogol</strong> is a satirical novel that follows <strong>Chichikov</strong> a cunning and ambitious man who travels through rural Russia buying the legal ownership of dead souls - deceased serfs who are still counted as alive on official records. His plan is to use these names as collateral to gain wealth and status.</p><p>As he visits different landowners Gogol uses their eccentric personalities to expose the greed corruption and moral decay of Russian society. Though Chichikov's scheme eventually unravels the novel remains a powerful critique of human vanity and the emptiness of material ambition.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p>