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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
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A quick note to counterbalance all of the glowing reviews. Of course, everybody has an opinion, and one can't argue with taste as they say, so let me provide - for your consideration - a representative passage from the first few pages of this translation. From the second page of "St. John's Eve": "I remember like now - the old woman, my late mother, ... »
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The Overcoat and Other Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
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I agree with those fans of this story who proclaim it to be the greatest short story ever. First, "The Overcoat," at 35 pages or so, has more thematic density than most novels. Second, it's funny. Third, it takes unpredictable twists and turns that suggest a madman or a genius at work. The premise is that a poor nebbish office worker saves all his mone... »
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Dead Souls: A Novel
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A socially adept newcomer fluidly inserts himself into an unnamed Russian town, conquering first the drinkers, then the dignitaries. All find him amiable, estimable, agreeable. But what exactly is Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov up to?--something that will soon throw the town "into utter perplexity." After more than a week of entertainment and "passing t... »
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Dead Souls
Nikolay Gogol lived a short and troubled life. He did manage to write one of the classic novels of Russian literature the immortal Dead Souls.
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Dead Souls (Everyman's Library)
This new translation of N Gogol's "Dead Souls", and a book of his short stories, are a major step forward in getting to the heart of Gogol's own writing o... »
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Dead Souls (Dover Thrift ed)
Nikolai Gogol's Dead Soul launches the 'great Russian novel form' with a satire, so apt and so funny, that the novel remains as one of the most popular Ru... »
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Taras Bulba (Modern Library Classics)
Peter Constantine's translation of Nikolai Gogol's Taras Bulba is the best I've read (although being the first translation of Taras Bulba I've read I may ... »
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