The Overcoat And Other Short Stories
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The Overcoat And Other Short Stories
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Author : Nikolai Gogol
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-03-05
The Overcoat And Other Short Stories written by Nikolai Gogol and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-05 with Fiction categories.
Four outstanding works by great 19th-century Russian author: "The Nose," "Old-Fashioned Farmers," "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich," and "The Overcoat."
The Mantle And Other Stories
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Author : Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
The Mantle And Other Stories written by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Fiction categories.
As a novel-writer and a dramatist, Gogol appears to me to deserve a minute study, and if the knowledge of Russian were more widely spread, he could not fail to obtain in Europe a reputation equal to that of the best English humorists. A delicate and close observer, quick to detect the absurd, bold in exposing, but inclined to push his fun too far, Gogol is in the first place a very lively satirist. He is merciless towards fools and rascals, but he has only one weapon at his disposalÑirony. This is a weapon which is too severe to use against the merely absurd, and on the other hand it is not sharp enough for the punishment of crime; and it is against crime that Gogol too often uses it. His comic vein is always too near the farcical, and his mirth is hardly contagious. If sometimes he makes his reader laugh, he still leaves in his mind a feeling of bitterness and indignation; his satires do not avenge society, they only make it angry. As a painter of manners, Gogol excels in familiar scenes. He is akin to Teniers and Callot. We feel as though we had seen and lived with his characters, for he shows us their eccentricities, their nervous habits, their slightest gestures. One lisps, another mispronounces his words, and a third hisses because he has lost a front tooth. Unfortunately Gogol is so absorbed in this minute study of details that he too often forgets to subordinate them to the main action of the story. To tell the truth, there is no ordered plan in his works, andÑa strange trait in an author who sets up as a realistÑhe takes no care to preserve an atmosphere of probability. His most carefully painted scenes are clumsily connectedÑthey begin and end abruptly; often the author's great carelessness in construction destroys, as though wantonly, the illusion produced by the truth of his descriptions and the naturalness of his conversations.
The Overcoat
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Author : Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2014-11-26
The Overcoat written by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-26 with categories.
In the department of — but it is better not to mention the department. There is nothing more irritable than departments, regiments, courts of justice, and, in a word, every branch of public service. Each individual attached to them nowadays thinks all society insulted in his person. Quite recently a complaint was received from a justice of the peace, in which he plainly demonstrated that all the imperial institutions were going to the dogs, and that the Czar’s sacred name was being taken in vain; and in proof he appended to the complaint a romance in which the justice of the peace is made to appear about once every ten lines, and sometimes in a drunken condition. Therefore, in order to avoid all unpleasantness, it will be better to describe the department in question only as a certain department. So, in a certain department there was a certain official — not a very high one, it must be allowed — short of stature, somewhat pock-marked, red-haired, and short-sighted, with a bald forehead, wrinkled cheeks, and a complexion of the kind known as sanguine. The St. Petersburg climate was responsible for this. As for his official status, he was what is called a perpetual titular councillor, over which, as is well known, some writers make merry, and crack their jokes, obeying the praiseworthy custom of attacking those who cannot bite back.
The Overcoat
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Author : Николай Васильевич Гоголь
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1923
The Overcoat written by Николай Васильевич Гоголь and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1923 with Russian fiction categories.
Overcoat
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Author : Nikolai Gogol
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2006-10
Overcoat written by Nikolai Gogol and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10 with categories.
It is the story of a sincere young clerk who makes great sacrifices to attain an ''overcoat'' of untold value and power. Representing the mighty bureaucracy, Akaky dies of a broken heart when his beloved smart coat is stolen. The story takes an interesting turn when he returns for his coat from the buyer. This story symbolizes the reprisal of lower class against the dominance of the ruling class.
The Overcoat And Other Stories
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Author : Nikolai Gógol
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-04-15
The Overcoat And Other Stories written by Nikolai Gógol and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-15 with categories.
Gogol is often hailed as the father of the modern Russian novel, but his true genius comes out in his short stories.
The Overcoat And Other Tales Of Good And Evil
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Author : Николай Васильевич Гоголь
language : en
Publisher: Bentley Publishers
Release Date : 1979
The Overcoat And Other Tales Of Good And Evil written by Николай Васильевич Гоголь and has been published by Bentley Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Fiction categories.
With the publication of "The Overcoat" in 1842, Nicolai Gogol (1809-1852) inaugurated a new chapter in Russian literature, in which the underdog and social misfit is treated not as a figure of fun or an object of charity, but as a human being with as much right to happiness as anybody else.
The Overcoat And Other Stories
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Author : Николай Васильевич Гоголь
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1923
The Overcoat And Other Stories written by Николай Васильевич Гоголь and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1923 with Short stories, Russian categories.
The Nose And Other Stories
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Author : Nikolai Gogol
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-01
The Nose And Other Stories written by Nikolai Gogol and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Nikolai Gogol’s novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol’s peculiar genius comes through most powerfully in his short stories. By turns—or at once—funny, terrifying, and profound, the tales collected in The Nose and Other Stories are among the greatest achievements of world literature. These stories showcase Gogol’s vivid, haunting imagination: an encounter with evil in a darkened church, a downtrodden clerk who dreams only of a new overcoat, a nose that falls off a face and reappears around town on its own, outranking its former owner. Written between 1831 and 1842, they span the colorful setting of rural Ukraine to the unforgiving urban landscape of St. Petersburg to the ancient labyrinth of Rome. Yet they share Gogol’s characteristic obsessions—city crowds, bureaucratic hierarchy and irrationality, the devil in disguise—and a constant undercurrent of the absurd. Susanne Fusso’s translations pay careful attention to the strangeness and wonder of Gogol's style, preserving the inimitable humor and oddity of his language. The Nose and Other Stories reveals why Russian writers from Dostoevsky to Nabokov have returned to Gogol as the cornerstone of their unparalleled literary tradition.
Overcoat
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Author : Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Overcoat written by Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with categories.