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Gogol Collected Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Category: Classic Fiction
Collected here are Gogol's finest tales - stories which combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller - allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way of Dostoevsky and Kakfa. All of Gogol's m ...Show more
How the Two Ivans Quarrelled by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Classic
Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In The ART OF THE NOVELLA series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitio ...Show more
How the Two Ivans Quarrelled - And Other Russian Comic Stories by Nikolai Gogol; Guy Daniels (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction
The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the mortal insult that drives them apart, and the ensuing chaos that occurs. This is Gogol's humour at its best, where the most irrelevant-seeming details and turns of phrase take on ...Show more
Nose: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #46 by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Classic Fiction | 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: Fiction | 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: Performing Arts Drama Plays | 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
Taras Bulba by GOGOL NIKOLAI
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The First New Translation in Forty YearsSet sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogol's epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulba's two sons.As Robert Kaplan writ ...Show more
Taras Bulba by Robert D. (INT) Peter (TRN); Kaplan Nikolai Vasilevich; Constantine Gogol
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library
The Collected Tales by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Classics
Collected here are Gogol's finest tales--stories that combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller--allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostoevsky and Kafka. All of Gogol's mos ...Show more
The Collected Tales Of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Category: Classic Fiction
When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself "amazed." "Here is real gaiety," he wrote, "honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness. And in places what poetry . . . I still haven't recovered." More than a century and a half later, Nikolai Gogol's ...Show more
The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Classic | Series: Signet Classics
Some call him a Russian Mark Twain. And with his special blend of comedy, social commentary, and fantasy, Nikolai Gogol paved the way for his countrymen Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. This sampling of Gogol's works includes the increasingly fantastic entries of "The Diary of a Madman," followed by the wonderf ...Show more