Dead Souls (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

Dead Souls (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

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

Dead Souls (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

One of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on

Dead Souls: New Translation - Nikolai Gogol

A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town andproceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual andsomewhat macabre proposition. He offers to buy the rights to the dead serfs who arestill registered on the landowner's estate, thus

The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Volume 1 (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

Nikolai Gogol was an artist who, like Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, and Sterne, knew how to walk upside down in our valley of sorrows so as to make it to a merry place. This two-volume edition at last brings all of Gogol's fiction (except his novel Dead Souls) together in paperback. Volume 1 includes

Nikolai Gogol (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since. His strange tales, though often read as forceful demands for social change, were displays of the fantasies of the human spirit. This book

Collected Tales Of Nikolai Gogol (Gogol Nikolai Vasilievich)(Paperback / softback)

Collected here are superb new translations of the finest tales - from the founding master of Russian surreal allegory and

Dead Souls (Rankin Ian)(Paperback / softback)

MYSTERIOUS PORTRAIT(Paperback)

The Portrait is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, originally published in the short story collection Arabesques in 1835 and is one of Gogols' most demonic of tales, hinting at some of his earlier works such as 'St. John's

Gogol Collected Tales (Gogol Nikolai)(Pevná vazba)

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

Government Inspector (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback / softback)

The news that a government inspector is due to arrive in a small Russian town sends its bureaucrats into a panicked

The Overcoat (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

From the Father of the Golden Age of Russian Literature, Nicolai Gogol's The Overcoat is one of the greatest short stories of all time. This satire on Russia's 19th century bureaucracy is amusing, pointed and has influenced many renowned Russian writers. Civil servant, Akakiy Akakievitch, is

Government Inspector (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

One of the most famous comedies in world theatre, Gogol's masterpiece has lost none of its bite. In a small town corruption is rife, and the Mayor and his cronies have got it made. So when they learn they are going to be subject to an undercover government inspection they panic. Mistaking a

The Night Before Christmas (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

It is the night before Christmas and devilry is afoot. The devil steals the moon and hides it in his pocket. He is thus free to run amok and inflicts all sorts of wicked mischief upon the village of Dikanka by unleashing a snowstorm. But the one he'd really like to torment is the town blacksmith,

Secondhand Souls (Moore Christopher)(Paperback)

In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing--and you know that can't be good--in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore's delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job.Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls

Plays and Petersburg Tales: Petersburg Tales; Marriage; The Government Inspector (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

This volume brings together Gogol's Petersburg Tales with his two most famous plays, all of which guide us through the streets of St. Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes of the Neva estuary. Something of the deception and violence of the city's creation seems to lurk

Stolen Souls (Neville Stuart)(Paperback / softback)

Now his brother is dead, and he's determined to find - and destroy - the woman responsible. ...And neither one will rest till she is deadOn the other side of the city, Detective Inspector Lennon wants a quiet Christmas with his six year old

Digital Souls: A Philosophy of Online Death (Stokes Patrick)(Paperback)

Social media is full of dead people. Nobody knows precisely how many Facebook profiles belong to dead users but in 2012 the figure was estimated at 30 million. What do we do with all these digital souls? Can we simply delete them, or do they have a right to persist? Philosophers have been almost

Petersburg Tales (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant façade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become

Nikolai Demidov: Becoming an Actor-Creator (Demidov Nikolai)(Paperback)

At the time of his death, Stanislavsky considered Nikolai Demidov to be 'his only student, who understands the System'. Demidov's incredibly forward-thinking processes not only continued his teacher's pioneering work, but also solved the problems of an actor's creativity that Stanislavsky never

Patrick O'Brian - A Very Private Life (Tolstoy Nikolai)(Paperback / softback)

An intimate portrait of Patrick O'Brian, written by his stepson Nikolai

Dead Souls (Riviere Sam)(Pevná vazba)

An extraordinary debut novel from an award-winning poet, about poets, plagiarism, love, technology, feuds and affairs, cancellation and revenge, and how writing really does alter

What Is to Be Done? (Chernyshevsky Nikolai)(Paperback)

Almost from the moment of its publication in 1863, Nikolai Chernyshevsky's novel, What Is to Be Done?, had a profound impact on the course of Russian literature and politics. The idealized image it offered of dedicated and self-sacrificing intellectuals transforming society by means of scientific

Restless Souls (Sheehan Dan)(Paperback)

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Selected Stories of Nikolai Leskov (Leskov Nikolai)(Paperback)

A new collection of the renowned Russian writer's best short work, including a masterful translation of the famous title story. Nikolai Leskov is the strangest of the great Russian writers of the nineteenth century. His work is closer to the oral traditions of narrative than that of his