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  • Audiobook

    3 Stories - Madness in Diaries

    A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

    Unabridged

    1 hour 40 min

    There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

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  • Dead Souls

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    Dead Souls is eloquent on some occasions, lyrical on others, and pious and reverent elsewhere. Nicolai Gogol was a master of the spoof. The American students of today are not the only readers who have been confused by him. Russian literary history records more divergent interpretations of Gogol than perhaps of any other classic. ... Read more

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  • St. John's Eve

    by Gogol, Nikolai ...
    Classic short story. According to Wikipedia: "Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol ( 1809 - 1852) was a Russian writer of Ukrainian ethnicity. Although his early works were heavily influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing and identity, he wrote in Russian and his works belong to the tradition of Russian literature; often called the "father of modern Russian realism," he was one of the first Russian authors to ... Read more

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  • The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

    Series series Vintage Classics
    “A superb new translation” (The New Yorker) of stories that allow readers to experience the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostoevsky and Kafka.When Nikolai Gogol left his Ukrainian village in 1828 to seek his fortune in St. Petersburg, he began composing these marvelous stories—tales that combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social ... Read more

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  • The Nose

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    "The Nose" is a satirical short 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. ... Read more

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  • Dead Souls

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    The classic satiric novel. According to Wikipedia: "Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol ( 1809 - 1852) was a Russian writer of Ukrainian ethnicity. Although his early works were heavily influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing and identity, he wrote in Russian and his works belong to the tradition of Russian literature; often called the "father of modern Russian realism," he was one of the first Russian ... Read more

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  • Dead Souls

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    Translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney ...
    Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; the translation was hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "an extraordinarily fine piece of work" and is still considered the best translation of Dead Souls ever published. Long out of ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

  • The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    Nikolai Gogol, an early 19th century Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist, created some of the most important works of world literature and is considered the father of modern Russian realism. Gogol satirized the corrupt bureaucracy of the Russian Empire through the scrupulous and scathing realism of his writing, which would ultimately lead to his exile. Among some of his finest ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Dead Souls

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 58 min

    Regarded as the first great masterpiece of Russian literature, Dead Souls mixes realism and symbolism for a vivid and highly original portrait of Russian life.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, thereby ... Read more

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  • The Government Inspector: New Translation

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    The mayor and local officials of a small provincial town in Russia have got it made: corruption is rife and they have all the power. Yet, when they learn that an undercover government inspector is about to make a visit, they face a mad dash to cover their tracks. Soon, the news that a suspicious person has recently arrived from St Petersburg and is staying in a local inn produces a series of ... Read more

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  • Thomas Seltzer

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    A small Russian town is a corrupt mess: prisoners aren't being fed, invalids are left to die, trash piles up against monuments, the courthouse is being used to hold livestock, and all the officials are taking bribes. But suddenly everybody is put on alert by the news that an Inspector General from the central government is due to arrive, incognito—and when it's discovered that a suspicious young ... Read more

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  • The Complete Novels of Nikolai Gogol

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    What happens when reality becomes stranger than fiction? The Complete Novels of Nikolai Gogol brings together the novel-length masterpieces of one of Russia's most original and influential writers. Blending sharp satire with the grotesque and the surreal, Gogol exposed the absurdities of bureaucracy, ambition, and social pretension with unmatched brilliance. Best known for Dead Souls, Gogol ... Read more

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