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Books with author Nicolai V. Gogol

  • The Nose: By Nikolai Gogol - Illustrated

    Nikolai Gogol

    Paperback (Independently published, July 25, 2017)
    How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Nose by Nikolai Gogol 'The Nose' is considered one of Nikolai Gogol's most famous works, a bizarre story about a man's 'nose' that embodies the wizardry of his work. The Nose is universally hailed as one of Gogol’s classics. The Nose is a satirical story by Nikolai Gogol. Written between 1835 and 1836, it tells of a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own. After disappearing from the Deputy Inspector's face, his nose shows up around town before returning to its proper place. Barber Ivan Yakovlevich finds a nose in his bread during breakfast. With horror he recognizes this nose as that of one of his regular customers, collegiate assessor Kovalyov. He tries to get rid of it by throwing it in the Neva River, but he is caught by a police officer. Dmitri Shostakovich's opera 'The Nose' first performed in 1930, is based on this story. A film based on this story was made by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker in 1963 and used pinscreen animation.
  • Dead souls

    Nikolai GOGOL

    (J.M Dent, Jan. 1, 1948)
    Dead Souls (The Novel Library)
  • The Nose

    Nikolai Gogol

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Oct. 23, 2017)
    "The Nose" is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol written during his time living in St. Petersburg. During this time, Gogol's works were primarily focused on surrealism and the grotesque, with a romantic twist. Written between 1835 and 1836, "The Nose" tells the story of a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own. "The Nose" was originally published in The Contemporary, a literary journal owned by Alexander Pushkin. The use of a nose as the main source of conflict in the story could have been due to Gogol's own experience with an oddly shaped nose, which was often the subject of self-deprecating jokes in letters. The use of iconic landmarks in the story, as well as the sheer absurdity of the story, has made "The Nose" an important part of St. Petersburg's literary tradition.
  • Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Fiction, Classics

    Nikolai V. Gogol

    Paperback (Wildside Press, Sept. 1, 2003)
    DEAD SOULS, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, "the Russian novel," not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the limbs of a single tree. Dostoevsky goes so far as to bestow this tribute upon an earlier work by the same author, a short story entitled "The Cloak"; this idea has been wittily expressed by another compatriot, who says: "We have all issued out of Gogol's Cloak."
  • Dead Souls

    Nikolai Gogol

    Mass Market Paperback (Signet Classics, Aug. 1, 1961)
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  • Taras Bulba: By Nikolai Gogol - Illustrated

    Nikolai Gogol

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Oct. 25, 2017)
    Why buy our paperbacks? Expedited shipping High Quality Paper Made in USA Standard Font size of 10 for all books 30 Days Money Back Guarantee BEWARE of Low-quality sellers Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. How is this book unique? Unabridged (100% Original content) Font adjustments & biography included Illustrated Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol is 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 the trials of Taras Bulba’s two sons. As Robert Kaplan writes "Taras Bulba has a Kiplingesque gusto . . . that makes it a pleasure to read, but central to its theme is an unredemptive, darkly evil violence that is far beyond anything that Kipling ever touched on. We need more works like Taras Bulba to better understand the emotional wellsprings of the threat we face today in places like the Middle East and Central Asia.” And the critic John Cournos has noted, “A clue to all Russian realism may be found in a Russian critic’s observation about Gogol: ‘Seldom has nature created a man so romantic in bent, yet so masterly in portraying all that is unromantic in life.’ But this statement does not cover the whole ground, for it is easy to see in almost all of Gogol’s work his ‘free Cossack soul’ trying to break through the shell of sordid today like some ancient demon, essentially Dionysian. So that his works, true though they are to our life, are at once a reproach, a protest, and a challenge, ever calling for joy, ancient joy, that is no more with us. And they have all the joy and sadness of the Ukrainian songs he loved so much.”
  • Dead Souls

    Nikolai Gogol

    (Signet Classics, Aug. 1, 1961)
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  • Dead Souls

    Nikolai Gogol

    Mass Market Paperback (Signet Classics, Aug. 1, 1961)
    Dead Souls describes the gambits of a quixotic opportunist in provincial Russia who sets out to buy deceased serfs at a low cost from their owners. Chichikov requires evidence of "property," since he wishes to marry an heiress, and is able to amass the "souls" because their owners must pay taxes on them until thaey are officially declared dead in the rolls of the next census. An affable and personable business man, he is wined and dined in luxurious mansions and humble crofts, proclaimed a man of standing, and thought to be odd and delightful. Gogol's panorama of fraudulence is lasting allegory and aligns him with Swift, Voltaire, Balzac, and Dickens as one of the world's arch-satirists.
  • Evenings in Little Russia

    Nikolai Gogol

    Paperback (Forgotten Books, Feb. 10, 2017)
    Excerpt from Evenings in Little RussiaNikolai Vasilievitch Gogol was born at the beginning of the Nineteenth century, about 1808 or 1809, in the very heart of the Cossack country, in the village of Pultava. He was of Cossack blood, his grandfather having been connected with the ancient Zaporovian League, which was made up for the most part of outlaws and brigands. The grandfather played an important part in the boy's life. Having reached old age, and being unfit for active service, his mind dwelt freely upon the exploits of his youth, and he became a past master in the art of story telling. The boy never tired of listening to his grandsire. With frequent repetition, as may readily be imagined, the stories became less fact than fiction; folk lore became engrafted upon them - mysterious adventures not easily explainable. Defeat came of the devil's aid; victor of armies of angels.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
  • Taras Bulba and Other Tales

    Nikolai Gogol

    Paperback (White Press, Jan. 8, 2015)
    This early work by Nikolai Gogol was originally published in the 19th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Taras Bulba and Other Tales' is a collection of short stories that include 'St. John's Eve', 'The Cloak', 'How the Two Ivans Quarrelled', 'The Mysterious Portrait', 'Calash', and 'Taras Bulba'. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born in Sorochintsi, Ukraine in 1809. In 1831, Gogol brought out the first volume of his Ukrainian stories, 'Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka'. It met with immediate success, and he followed it a year later with a second volume. 'The Nose' is regarded as a masterwork of comic short fiction, and 'The Overcoat' is now seen as one of the greatest short stories ever written; some years later, Dostoyevsky famously stated "We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'." He is seen by many contemporary critics as one of the greatest short story writers who has ever lived, and the Father of Russia's Golden Age of Realism.
  • Dead Souls

    Nikolai Gogol

    Mass Market Paperback (Signet Classics, Aug. 1, 1961)
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  • The Diary of a Madman, the Government Inspector, and Selected Stories

    Nikolai Gogol

    Unknown Binding (Penguin Classics, March 15, 1894)
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