"The Golden Fund of World Literature" - a collection of electronic books, including the best samples of world literature, is the most comprehensive list of the world's most read books. Each of the works published under the cover of this series is included in one or at the same time several lists of the best books on different versions that are not opposed to each other but harmoniously combined to give the reader the largest choice. "Dead Souls" - a novel by N.V. Gogol, in which he gave a complete picture of the life of feudal Russia: the types of landlords, city officials and bureaucrats. The protagonist, having invented a witty adventure, toured the serfs with an unusual proposal - to sell him the peasants who died, but in the state lists are still listed as living. What is Chichikov up to? Will he manage to carry out his plans?