Dead Souls: New Translation - Nikolai Gogol

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dead Souls (Rankin Ian)(Paperback / softback)

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

Lost Souls (Balzac Honor de)(Paperback)

The first new translation of Balzac's 1847 novel Splendeurs et mis res des courtisanes in half a century, fully annotated and with an extensive introduction In Lost Souls, Honor de Balzac's brilliant evocation of nineteenth-century Paris, we enter a world of glittering wealth and grinding

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

A Dead Man's Memoir: A Theatrical Novel (Bulgakov Mikhail)(Paperback)

A new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and Soviet society Best known for The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov is one of twentieth-century Russia's most prominent novelists. A Dead Man's Memoir is a semi- autobiographical story about a writer who fails

The Dead Sea Scrolls - Revised Edition: A New Translation (Wise Michael O.)(Paperback)

This book contains virtually every legible portion of the fragmented Scrolls, including revelatory information on early Christianity, which is rooted far deeper in ancient Judaism than previously realized. Also included are Scroll fragments that promise to dramatically alter our view of biblical

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

The Dead Girls' Class Trip: Selected Stories (Seghers Anna)(Paperback)

A new translation of the best and most provocative short stories by the author of Transit and The Seventh Cross. Best known for the anti-fascist novel The Seventh Cross and the existential thriller Transit, Anna Seghers was also a gifted writer of short fiction. The stories she wrote throughout her

Moscow Metro Architecture & Design Map (Vassiliev Nikolai)(Folded)

Architectural historian Nikolai Vassiliev has curated the second in Blue Crow Media's new series of maps dedicated to the architecture and design of the world's finest public transport systems. With photography by Alexei Narodizkii, this bilingual (English andRussian) two-sided cartographic guide

Lost Souls Short Stories (Luckhurst Roger)(Pevná vazba)

A collection of new tales with brilliant new writers and lost souls from the darkest corners of literature and legend: Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer mingles with Dante's infernal spirits and a retold tale from Ovid's Metamorphoses. And with the dark fiction of William Hope Hodgson and Arthur

Tibetan Book of the Dead - First Complete Translation(Paperback / softback)

The most graceful English translation of this masterpiece of world literature - prepared with the participation of the Dalai Lama and eminent contemporary masters of this tradition appointed by the Dalai Lama. This title contains guidance and practices related to transforming our experience in