The one hundred and twenty-fourth book: #94 Dead Souls - Mikhail Lermontov
When looking at Dead Souls, there are two parts I need to look at. The first half of the book is an interesting look at Russian bureaucratic life, with landowners selling dead serfs for reasons of taxation. It satirizes many different types of landowners you might see, but runs it in a way that takes time to explore these characters, making them more than just charicatures. And the liberties they take surrounding a beneficial transaction to them flows from that in an interesting way.
The second half is broken up, with chunks omitted and ending mid-sentence. Although this isn't quite as intentional - it seems like he burned the manuscript for it as part of delusions in his last days - but it works for the story. We're hearing the story of a fraudster, but it makes it feels more secondhand as there are parts that are missing and instead you just get fragments as you see passages from his life. It's a decent device here and even though it's not intentional at this point, it ends up enhancing the work further.