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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 stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a stunning new translation--from an award-winning team of translators--presents these stor...

Excerpt from The Inspector-General: Or Revizór a Russian Comedy Of __the seamy side of provincial life in Russia, and a typical set of droll but dubious characters live again in its pages. The play is indeed a mirror, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-o...

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Dieser Band beinhaltet die folgenden Geschichten des 1854 in Moskau verstorbenen, großen russischen Schriftstellers: Der Jahrmarkt zu Ssorotschinzy, Johannisnacht, Die Mainacht oder Die Ertrunkene, Der verlorene Brief, Die Nacht vor Weihnachten, Schreckliche Rache, Der verhexte Ort, Der Wij, Die Nase, Der Newskij-Prospekt, Aufzeichnungen eines Irren und einige mehr.

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An NYRB Classics OriginalThe 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 shows up out of nowhere proposing to buy title to serfs who, though dead as doornails, are still property on paper. What can he have up his sleeve, the local landowners wonder, even as some rush to unl...

This is a dual-language book with the Russian text on the left side, and the English text on the right side of each spread. The texts are precisely synchronized. A great book for learning both languages while reading a Russian classic masterpiece. Fragments of Dead Souls' second volume, which Gogol burnt shortly before his death, are not included in this edition.

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 most memorable creations are here: the minor official who misplaces his nose, the downtrodden clerk whose life is changed by the acquisition of a sp...

Pawel Iwanowitsch Tschitschikow wächst in ärmlichen Verhältnissen auf, erhält nach entbehrungsreicher Jugend einen kleinen Büroposten in einem abgelegenen Oberfinanzamt, steigt durch Fleiß, Verzicht, Schmeicheleien, später auch mit angenehmen Umgangsformen, gewandtem Auftreten und Geschäftstüchtigkeit zum Abteilungsleiter und Kommissionsmitglied auf. Zuerst bekämpft er die Korruption, verfällt ihr aber schließlich auch, lebt in Luxus und verli...

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.

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This two-volume edition at last brings all of Gogol's fiction (except his novel Dead Souls) together in paperback. Volume one includes Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, as well as 'Nevsky Prospekt' and 'Diary of a Madman'.

The Constance Garnett translation has been revised throughout by the editor.