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Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: 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 suddenly take on a bizarre life of their own. The second story, Ivan Krylov's Panegyric in Memory of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 161 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 425) Аннотация: From the acclaimed translators of «War and Peace», «Crime and Punishment», and «The Brothers Karamazov», a brilliant translation of Nikolai Gogol’s short fiction. Collected here are Gogol’s finest tales — stories that combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller — allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: The First New Translation in Forty Years 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 in his Introduction, “[Taras Bulba] has a Kiplingesque gusto... that makes it a pleasure…