Read by Igor Dobryakov. Duration: 17 hours, 28 min."Dead Souls" is a unique novel, written as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book as a "novel in verse". The story follows the exploits of Chichikov, a young middle-class gentleman. Chichikov arrives in a small town and quickly tries to make a name for himself by impressing the town's petty officials. Despite his limited funds, he spends extravagantly, under the assumption that a great show of wealth and power at the start will gain him the connections he needs to live easily in the future. He also hopes to befriend the townspeople so that he can more easily carry out his bizarre and mysterious plan to acquire "dead souls" (serfs).
