Finished the Unfinished

Finished this "unfinished" Russian classic even if the author didn't. The nature of the book, Chichikov travels the 1800s Russian countryside "buying" ownership of dead serfs and meeting a wide assortment of people, lent itself well to reading through DailyLit.com Not exactly a road-trip book but Chichikov does travel and offers insights: "I am travelling on my own account as well, in that, in addition to possible benefit to my health, I desire to see the world and the whirligig of humanity, which constitute, to so speak, a living book, a second course of education."

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