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Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: 'Rus! Russ!...Everything within you is open, desolate, and flat; your squat towns barely protrude above the level of your wide plains, marking them like little dots, like specks; here is nothing to entice and fascinate the onlooker's gaze. Yet whence this unfathomable, uncanny force that draws me to you?' Although Dead Souls (1842) was largely composed by Gogol during self-imposed exile in Italy…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russia. Will he get away with it? Who will rumble him?

Скачать книгу (размер 2 288 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 450) Аннотация: Collected here are Gogol's finest tales — stories which 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 writer who paved the way of Dostoevsky and Kakfa. All of Gogol's most memorable creations are here: the minor official who misplaces his nose, the downtrodden…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Opening a door to a bizarre world of broad comedy, fantasy, and social commentary, the title story offers an unforgettable depiction of a lunatic civil servant and his struggles to be noticed by the woman he loves. This excellent introduction to Gogol also features Nevski Prospect and The Portrait.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Includes both Nikolay Gogol's short fiction and famous drama. The stories gathered here range from comic to tragic and describe the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers. They include Diary of a Madman, Nevsky Prospect, and The Overcoat.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: This collection contains Gogols finest tales — from the demon-haunted St Johns Eve and Viy to the surrealism of The Nose, from the trials of the copyist in The Overcoat to those of the delusional clerk in The Diary of a Madman.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 039 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 205) Аннотация: These translations of Gogol's plays restore the vitality of Gogol's language and humour, finally allowing his dramatic art to speak directly to Western readers, directors, actors and theatre-goers. This volume contains The Government Inspector and Marriage — Gogol's greatest full-length plays — and a one-act satire, The Gamblers. Also included are writings on theatre from Gogol's notebooks and…