Books
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Petersburg tales | Николай Васильевич Гоголь | 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 assess… | OL16457776W |
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Great Conversations 2 | René Descartes,Frank O'Connor,Max Planck,Nadine Gordimer,Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский,Raymond Carver,Anonymous,Николай Васильевич Гоголь,J. M. Synge,John Rawls,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,Mike Levine,Christina Georgina Rosetti,Daniel Born,John Dunne,Friedrich A. Hayek | The story of Samson, Judges 13-16 / Anonymous Selected poems / John Dunne Meditations on first philosophy / René Descartes The nose / Nikolai Gogol Grand Inquisitor / Fyodor Dostoevsky [Fa… | OL17820190W |
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Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces | Victor Hugo,Sophocles,Heinrich Heine,Charles Baudelaire,Colette,Albert Camus,Blaise Pascal,Πλάτων,Pak, Tu-jin,Henrik Ibsen,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Isak Dinesen,Pär Lagerkvist,Buson Yosa,Yehuda Amichai,Wang, Wei,Rabindranath Tagore,Tu Fu,Tsurayuki Ki,Όμηρος,Ovid,Jorge Luis Borges,Антон Павлович Чехов,Giovanni Boccaccio,Александр Исаевич Солженицын,Thomas Mann,Niccolò Machiavelli,François Villon,Jonathan Swift,川端康成,William Wordsworth,Chrétien de Troyes,Николай Васильевич Гоголь,Julio Cortázar,Heinrich Böll,Burton Beers,Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoy,Doris Lessing,Günter Grass,Po Chu-i,Dante Alighieri,Guy de Maupassant,Stanisław Lem,Jean de La Fontaine,Yoshida Kenko,Federico García Lorca,Derek Walcott,Luigi Pirandello,Franz Kafka,Christopher Marlowe,Lao-Tze,Bessie Head,Confucius,Boris Leonidovich Pasternak,Gabriela Mistral,Marie de France,Paul Valéry,Italo Calvino,Ōgai Mōri,Czesław Miłosz,Arthur Rimbaud,Gabriel García Márquez,Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin,Ch'ien T'ao,Najib Mahfouz,Toshiyori Minamoto,Margaret Atwood,Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko,Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan,Kobayashi, Hideo,Komachi Ono,Octavio Paz,Pierre de Ronsard,Manuel Rojas,Wole Soyinka,Rainer Maria Rilke,John Milton,Primo Levi,Lu Hsun,Sei Shōnagon,Rubén Darío,Hitomaro Kakinomoto,Pablo Neruda,Anna Ahkmatova,Basho,To Li Chien,Pliny,Li Po,Nguyen Thi Vinh,Virgil,Andrei Vosnesensky,Omar Khayyam,William Shakespeare | 9-10th grade | OL18460630W |
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Sorotchintzy fair | Schönfeldt, Sybil Gräfin.,Николай Васильевич Гоголь | This story is based on a traditional Russian country tale about a beautiful young girl who is wooed and won at the Sorotchintzy fair by a dashing suitor who uses the villagers', and his future father… | OL2076208W |
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The government inspector | Николай Васильевич Гоголь | A classic comedy of Russian provincial life. A penniless young traveller is mistaken for a government inspector whose arrival is expected with panic by the corrupt local officials. He is bribed and f… | OL21774440W |
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Dead Souls | Николай Васильевич Гоголь | Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy. Set in Russia before the emancipation of serfs in 1861, the "dead souls" are dead serfs still being counted by landowners as property, as well as refer… | OL270276W |
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The Inspector-General | Николай Васильевич Гоголь | The Inspector-General is a national institution. To place a purely literary valuation upon it and call it the greatest of Russian comedies would not convey the significance of its position either in … | OL270277W |
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Taras Bulba | Николай Васильевич Гоголь | This is a short historical novel of a Cossack and his two sons during the patriotic war against Poland. Having retuned home from their studies at Kiev University, Taras Bulba’s sons join their father… | OL270278W |
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Short Fiction | Николай Васильевич Гоголь | <p><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/nikolai-gogol">Nikolai Gogol</a> spent most of his literary career writing short stories, drawing inspiration from his childhood in Ukraine and his adult… | OL27292279W |
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Evenings near the village of Dikanka | Николай Васильевич Гоголь | This book is perfect for everyone who wants to get to know the Slavic culture better and to look into the past of it. Village Evenings Near Dikanka takes place during the winter celebrations. The bla… | OL699209W |
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Тарас Бульба | Николай Васильевич Гоголь | "Set sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogol's epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mytholo… | OL699228W |