With an Introduction by Anthony Briggs. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood.Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up 'dead souls'. These are the pape…
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 venalit…
Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; the translation was hailed…
A few factual points ought to be explained to the reader, even though the novel itself eventually suffices to clarify some of them. First, the title of the book. Among Russian serf-owning gentry, the idiomatic way to assess someone's wealth was to e…
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 entr…
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…
Written in 1831 by the father of Russian literature, this beloved tale features the adventures of Vakula, the blacksmith, in his fight against the devil, who has stolen the moon above the village of Dikanka and is wreaking havoc on its inhabitants,…
It is the night before Christmas and devilry is afoot. The devil steals the moon and hides it in his pocket. He is thus free to run amok and inflicts all sorts of wicked mischief upon the village of Dikanka by unleashing a snowstorm. But the one he…
Translated by Constance GarnettNotes and Introductions by David Rampton, Department of English, University of OttawaGogol's works constitute one of Russian literature's supreme achievements, yet the nature of their brilliant originality, comic geniu…
Gogol's stories are admired for their skillful mingling of fantasy and reality, quiet good humor and use of mundane details -- as Gogol put it -- "to extract the extraordinary from the ordinary." Imaginative and timeless, they remain as fresh and si…
Nikolai Gogol, an early 19th century Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist, considered the father of modern Russian realism, created some of the most important works of Russian literature. Gogol satirized the corrupt bureaucracy o…
The First New Translation in Forty Years Set 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 th…
The corrupt officials of a small Russian town, headed by the Mayor, react with terror to the news that an incognito inspector (the revizor) will soon be arriving in their town to investigate them. The flurry of activity to cover up their considerabl…
Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol's peculiar genius comes through most powerfully in his short stories. B…
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." Mor…
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) war ein russischer Schriftsteller. Im Jahr 1831 lernte Gogol den Dichter Alexander Puschkin kennen, der ihm den Weg in die russische Literatur wies. Puschkin wurde ihm Freund und F rderer. So regte Puschkin an, den Revisor…
Nikolai W. Gogol: Die Geschichte vom gro en Krakeel zwischen Iwan Iwanowitsch und Iwan Nikiforowitsch Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2016 Durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Micha…
Diary of a Madman (1835; Russian: Записки сумасшедшего, Zapiski sumasshedshevo) is a farcical short story by Nikolai Gogol. Along with…
Nikolai W. Gogol: Aufzeichnungen eines Wahnsinnigen / Der Newski-Prospekt Lesefreundlicher Gro druck in 16-pt-Schrift Gro format, 210 x 297 mm Berliner Ausgabe, 2019 Durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet…
Nikolai W. Gogol: Abende auf dem Weiler bei Dikanka. Ukrainische Erz hlungen Lesefreundlicher Gro druck in 16-pt-Schrift Gro format, 210 x 297 mm Berliner Ausgabe, 2019 Durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingericht…
Akaki Akakievitch Bachmatchkine, un petit fonctionnaire p tersbourgeois, consacre l'essentiel de son temps des copies d'actes, t che qu'il accomplit avec z le au milieu des moqueries et des vexations. Une catastrophe chamboule un jour sa vie: son ma…
With his sense of humor and ability to observe, Nikolai Gogol presents the world with stories of little people: the weak and fragile people who try to hold on to life in the gloomy cities of Russia. "The Mantle", which is listed among his masterpiec…
"The Portrait" is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, originally published in the short story collection Arabesques in 1835. It is one of Gogol's most demonic of tales, hinting at some of his earlier works such as "St. John's Eve" and "Viy"
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (April 1, 1809 - March 4, 1852) was a Russian-language writer of Ukrainian origin. Although his early works were heavily influenced by his Ukrainian heritage and upbringing, he wrote in Russian and his works belong to the t…
Gogol's great Russian classic is the Pickwick Papers of Russian literature. It takes a sharp but humorous look at life in all its strata, but especially the devious complexities in Russia with its landowners and serfs.We are introduced to Tchitchiko…
A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their 'dead souls, ' the serfs who have died in their service. A comic masterpiece. Dead Souls is eloquent on some occasions, lyrical o…
Full text.Chichikov, an enigmatic stranger and schemer, buys deceased serfs' names from their landlords' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for profit and to reinvent himself as a gentleman.Dead Souls is eloquent on some occasions, lyrical on ot…
An NYRB Classics Original The first of the great Russian novels and one of the indisputable masterpieces of world literature, "Dead Souls" is the tale of Chichikov, an affably cunning con man who causes consternation in a small Russian town when he…
Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. Majskaja noch', ili Utoplennica - odna iz samyh skazochnyh i charujushhih povestej N. V. Gogolja iz ego sbornika Vechera na hutore bliz Dikan'ki. Prekrasnye, pronizannye duhom u…
Majskaja noch', ili Utoplennica - odna iz samyh skazochnyh i charujushhih povestej N. V. Gogolja iz ego sbornika Vechera na hutore bliz Dikan'ki. Prekrasnye, pronizannye duhom ukrainskogo fol'klora illjustracii sozdajut nepovtorimyj kolorit volshebn…
"A most extraordinary thing happened in St. Petersburg on the twenty-fifth of March." The opening lines of "The Nose", one of Gogol’s best-known stories, and quite possibly the most absurd, are just as promising as any of his works. The simple…
Tarass Boulba est un roman historique de Nicolas Gogol publi en 1843. Une premi re version est parue en janvier 1835. Elle fait alors partie du recueil Mirgorod. La version beaucoup plus toff e publi e seule constitue le texte d finitif. L'histoire…
Un pisode imaginaire de la lutte des cosaques contre les Polonais dans l'Ukraine du XVIIe si cle. Le vieux Taras Boulba, cosaque des temps h ro ques, apr s avoir initi la guerre ses deux fils, perd l'a n sous les coups de l'ennemi et tue de ses prop…
Tarass Boulba est un cosaque ukrainien robuste et belliqueux. Ses deux fils, Andre et Ostap, rentrant de Kiev apr s avoir fini leurs tudes, sont tr s vite conduits la Setch, le campement militaire cosaque. Une rumeur circulant dans le camp constitue…
Taras Bulba is a romanticized historical novella by Nikolai Gogol. It describes the life of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap.
Taras Bulba is a magnificent story portraying the life of the Ukrainian Cossacks who lived by the Dnieper River in the sixteenth century. Taras Bulba is an old and hardened warrior who feels a little rusty from lack of action. When his two sons retu…
"Taras Bulba" provides a vivid portrayal of the Cossacks and their way of life before the modern times than any other novel we can think of. Centered on the Zaphorizhian Cossacks of Eastern Ukraine, the story deals with a father who in a bid to init…
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol 31 March 1809 - 4 March 1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer. Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later…
Dead Souls: Large Print by Nikolai Gogol rself as too ignorant to be able in some fashion, however small, to help me. Every man who has lived in the world and mixed with his fellow men will have remarked something which has remained hidden from the…
Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls is one of the best-known pieces of 19th-century Russian literature. Chichikov is a mysterious man, who arrives at a small town with a strange plan of acquiring 'dead souls.' Marked by eccentric characters and heated…
Fresh, stylish new translations of Gogol's greatest short stories collected in a beautiful edition'One of the most profound, and influential, writers Russia has ever produced, he is probably also the funniest' Guardian'The most morally complete writ…
<p>Jouluyökin on yö.</p><p>Venäläisen kirjallisuuden ykkössatiirikon tarina niistä, jotka vaeltavat juhlapyhinäkin pimeyden turvin.</p><p>Gogolin kertomuksessa jouluyön kipakassa pakkasilmassa vilisee monenlaista olento…
"Diary of a Madman" is a farcical short story by Nikolai Gogol. Along with "The Overcoat" and "The Nose," "Diary of a Madman" is considered to be one of Gogol's greatest short stories. The tale centers on the life of a minor civil servant during the…
Vechera na hutore bliz Dikan'ki (Chast' pervaja - 1831, Chast' vtoraja - 1832) - bessmertnyj shedevr velikogo russkogo pisatelja Nikolaja Vasil'evicha Gogolja (1809-1852), pervoe krupnoe ego proizvedenie, kotoroe srazu zhe prineslo emu izvestnost' i…
"The Old World Landowners" is a short story written in 1835. It is the first tale in the "Mirgorod" collection by Nikolai Gogol. The story is a vivid representation of the old-fashioned way of life in early nineteenth century rural Ukraine, ? portra…
Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) left his mark as a playwright, novelist, and writer of short stories. Gogol's works remain popular with both writers and readers, who prize his origin…
