Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: 7 books

Russians! You just can’t get around them when it comes to great literature. This new ebook is a classic: The Cloak, by Gogol. Sometimes translated by The Overcoat. The story seems pretty straight forward: a clerk (see, we seem to come around clerks lately…) called Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin,...

Dead Souls is a true masterpiece It is eloquent on some occasions, lyrical on others, and pious and reverent elsewhere. Nicolai Gogol was a master of the spoof. The American students of today are not the only readers who have been confused by him. Russian literary history records more divergent interpretations...

La nouvelle intitulée Tarass Boulba, la plus considérable du recueil de Gogol, est un petit roman historique où il a décrit les moeurs des anciens Cosaques Zaporogues. Une note préliminaire nous semble à peu près indispensable pour les lecteurs étrangers à la Russie. Nous ne voulons pas, toutefois,...

Thoma Grigorovich had a very strange sort of eccentricity: to the day of his death he never liked to tell the same thing twice. There were times when, if you asked him to relate a thing afresh, behold, he would interpolate new matter, or alter it so that it was impossible to recognize it. Once on a time...

THERE were sounds of merriment in the village, and a chorus of song murmured, stream-like, through its single street. It was the hour when lads and lasses, after their hard day’s work, meet in the mellow gloaming to express their feelings in melodies which, though glad, are never without a strain of...