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Podcast: Classic Audiobook Collection
Episode: Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]
Description: Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol audiobook. Genre: comedyIn provincial Russia, a smooth-tongued stranger named Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov arrives with polished manners, vague credentials, and an oddly specific business proposition. Traveling from estate to estate, he courts landowners, charms officials, and studies the petty rivalries that rule local society. His goal is as baffling as it is audacious: to purchase the legal rights to peasants who have died since the last census - the so-called 'dead souls' who still exist on paper and still count toward a landlord's taxes and status. As...