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This is the poet and playwright Adrian Mitchell's version of Gogol's classic satire on human vanity with its story of a penniless nobody from Moscow who is mistaken for a government inspector by self-seeking officials in Tsarist Russia.

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town with a bizarre but seductive proposition for local landowners. He proposes to buy the names of their serfs who have died but who are still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them. But what collateral will he receive for these souls?

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Dead Souls" by Nikolai Gogol in Russian. Dannoe izdanie "Mertvyh dush" vkluchaet v sebja, pomimo pervogo toma, sohranivshiesya glavy vtorogo toma, a takzhe okolo 300 illustracij, sozdannyh gruppoi russkih hudozhnikov v konce 19-go veka.

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian writer. Although his early works, such as "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, " were heavily influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing and identity, he is often called the "father of modern Russian realism." The novels Taras Bul'ba and Dead Souls, the play The Inspector-General, and the short stories "Diary of a Madman, " "The Nose" and "The Overcoat" (1842) are among his best known works. With...

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Cuando el escurridizo señorito, engalanado con rabo y perilla de chivo, salió volando por la chimenea para tirarse de nuevo por ella poco después, el morral que llevaba en bandolera y en el que había ocultado el astro desaparecido se enganchó en el horno y se abrió. Aprovechando la ocasión, la luna se escapó por la chimenea de la choza de Soloja y subió majestuosamente al cielo. Todo se iluminó. Ya no quedaba rastro de la tormenta. La nieve br...

This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the subject. From analyses of the varied geography that e...

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 does strange stuff, too, What's to expect?Seriously, it's a nose.In A History of Russian Literature, the critic D.S. Mirsky writes: "The Nose is a p...

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Many of the gothic romance and horror stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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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 does strange stuff, too, What's to expect?Seriously, it's a nose.In A History of Russian Literature, the critic D.S. Mirsky writes: "The Nose is a p...

Gogol has made brilliantly colored pictures of his Zaporogues, which please by their very grotesqueness, but sometimes it is too evident that he has not drawn them from nature. Moreover, these character-pictures are framed in such a trivial and romantic setting that one regrets to see them so ill-placed. The most prosaic story would have suited them better than these melodramatic scenes in which are accumulated tragic incidents of famine, tort...

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A young priest is preparing to spend three nights alone with the corpse of a dead witch and only his faith to protect him. He is ordered to supervise the waking of the dead witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. Join the priest on his journey in this Sovereign Classic edition of Viy. This edition includes both English and Russian language texts.