As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas, to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this wonderfully engaging collection....

La prosa de Gogol resulto sorprendente en su epoca por su originalidad, y fue celebrada por autores tan distintos como Pushkin y Nadezhdin. Gogol se aleja de la tradicion narrativa de los cuentos populares mezclando los elementos sobrenaturales del cuento popular con los elementos de la conciencia narrativa individual....

An original selection of short fiction from one of the greats of Russian literature A wounded solider vanishes into notoriety. A nose is found in a loaf of bread. Places - like the Nevesky Prospect - are not what they seem....

Bajo el titulo generico de Historias de San Petersburgo se reunen los cinco relatos breves mas sobresalientes de la obra de Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), vinculados por el nexo comun de estar situados en la capital de la Rusia imperial....

\\\"Fuyez, pour Dieu, fuyez au loin le reverbere ! Et vite, aussi vite que vous pouvez, passez au large. Heureux encore si vous vous en tirez avec une coulee de son huile puante sur votre elegant manteau. Mais outre le reverbere tout respire l\"imposture....

The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the mortal insult that drives them apart, and the ensuing chaos that occurs. This is Gogol\"s humour at its best, where the most irrelevant-seeming details and turns of phrase take on a bizarre life of their own....

The news that a government inspector is due to arrive in a small Russian town sends its bureaucrats into a panicked frenzy. A simple case of mistaken identity exposes the hypocrisy and corruption at the heart of the town in this biting moral......

En esta novela impregnada del mismo espiritu satirico que anos despues seria tambien sena de identidad de “El maestro y Margarita”, de Bulgakov, su protagonista, Chichikov, pergena el plan de comprar “almas muertas” –esto es, la propiedad de siervos......

Creador junto con Aleksandr Pushkin de la gran prosa rusa del siglo xix que habria de prolongarse en Dostoyevski, Tolstoi y Chejov, Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) inicio su brillante andadura literaria con los relatos que agrupo bajo el titulo generico de......

Nel gelo di Pietroburgo, una città livida e ostile, è ambientato Il cappotto: è la triste vicenda di un impiegato mite e remissivo, deriso dai colleghi, eternamente sottomesso, che viene derubato del cappotto, comperato dopo......

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....

This early work by Nikolai Gogol was originally published in 1836 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Inspector-General' is a play allegedly based on an anecdote recounted to Gogol by Pushkin, the great Russian Poet....

Эта книга — репринт оригинального издания (издательство "London, Felling-on-Tyne; New York, The W. Scott publishing co., ltd.", 1907 год), созданный на основе электронной копии высокого разрешения, которую очистили и обработали вручную, сохранив структуру и орфографию оригинального издания....

This edition of Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol and translated by D. J. Hogarth is given by Ashed Phoenix - Million Book Edition ...

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