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A Place Bewitched and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol; Constance Garnett (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: riverrun editions
Nikolai Gogol was a well-known Russian dramatist and fiction writer famous for his surreal sensibilities and distinctive sense of humour. He was active during the mid nineteenth century and drew on the increasing bureaucracy of the vast Russian empire for his subject matter. His works are satirical, fun ...Show more
And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon - Essential Stories by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Collection
Fresh, stylish new translations of Gogol's greatest short stories collected in a beautiful edition Admired by writers from Nabokov to Bulgakov to George Saunders, Gogol is considered one of the more enigmatic of the Russian greats. He only wrote one novel, Dead Souls, and destroyed much of his later wo ...Show more
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The Dead Souls written by Nikolay Gogol in 1842 is not only a masterpiece of Russian literature but also a deep timeless social satire.The plot is evolving around enterprising protagonist Mr. Chichikov who is being sent to a small town NN where he is buying from local landlords "dead souls or the rights ...Show more
Dead Souls by Donald (INT) Nikolai Vasilevich; Rayfield Gogol
Category: Classics | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls is the great comic masterpiece of Russian literature-a satirical and splendidly exaggerated epic of life in the benighted provinces. Gogol hoped to show the world "the untold riches of the Russian soul" in this 1842 novel, which he populated with a Dickensian swarm of charact ...Show more
Dead Souls by Larissa (TRN) Richard (TRN); Volokhonsky Nikolai Vasilevich; Pevear Gogol
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library (Cloth)
Dead Souls by GOGOL NIKOLAI
Category: Classics
Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chich ...Show more
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Nikolay Gogol
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nikolai Gogol's 'epic poem in prose', "Dead Souls" is a damning indictment of a corrupt society, translated from the Russian with an introduction and notes by Robert A. Maguire in "Penguin Classics". Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landow ...Show more
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town andproceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual andsomewhat macabre proposition. He offers to buy the rights to the dead serfs who arestill registered on the landowner's estate, thus reducing ...Show more
Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, and Selected Stories by Nikolai Gogol, Ronald Wilks (Translator); Robert A. Maguire (Introduction by);
Category: Fiction
Author, dramatist and satirist, Nikolai Gogol deeply influenced later Russian literature with his powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty bureaucracy and base corruption. This volume includes both his most admired short fiction and his most famous drama. A biting and frequently hilarious pol ...Show more
Nose: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #46 by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
This is the story of a nose. No, really -- it's the story of a nose that leaves the face of an official in St. Petersburg (the Russian St. Petersburg, the one in Florida wasn't even a proper village when Gogol was alive). The nose leaves this man's face and wanders off to have a life of its own. It doe ...Show more
Petersburg Tales by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant facade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a stat ...Show more
Plays and Petersburg Tales: Petersburg Tales, Marriage, the Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
In these tales Gogol guides us through the elegant streets of St Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes of the Neva estuary. Something of the deception and violence of the city's creation seems to lurk beneath its harmonious facade, however, and it confounds its inhabitants w ...Show more