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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: Dead Souls

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: '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 you?' Although Dead Souls (1842) was largely composed by Gogol during self-imposed exile in Italy…

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: Dead Souls

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russia. Will he get away with it? Who will rumble him?

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: Diary of a Madman: And Other Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Opening a door to a bizarre world of broad comedy, fantasy, and social commentary, the title story offers an unforgettable depiction of a lunatic civil servant and his struggles to be noticed by the woman he loves. This excellent introduction to Gogol also features Nevski Prospect and The Portrait.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: This collection contains Gogols finest tales — from the demon-haunted St Johns Eve and Viy to the surrealism of The Nose, from the trials of the copyist in The Overcoat to those of the delusional clerk in The Diary of a Madman.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: Place and Selected Writings

Скачать книгу (размер 1 039 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 205) Аннотация: These translations of Gogol's plays restore the vitality of Gogol's language and humour, finally allowing his dramatic art to speak directly to Western readers, directors, actors and theatre-goers. This volume contains The Government Inspector and Marriage — Gogol's greatest full-length plays — and a one-act satire, The Gamblers. Also included are writings on theatre from Gogol's notebooks and…