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Dead Souls: A Poem by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Rus! Russ!...Everything within you is open, desolate, and flat; your squat towns barely protrude above the level of your wide plains, marking them like little dots, like specks; here is nothing to entice and fascinate the onlooker's gaze. Yet whence this unfathomable, uncanny force that draws me to yo ...Show more
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
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 Government Inspector by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Drama Classics S.
Bumbling and inefficient town officials are thrown into a panic when they learn that a Government Inspector is coming, perhaps incognito. When a well-dressed rogue arrives, he realizes he is presumed to be the Inspector and takes advantage of the officials' dinners, bribes, etc. When the officials reali ...Show more
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