""Dead Souls"" is a masterpiece of Russian literature written by acclaimed author Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol. Originally published in [YEAR], this satirical novel takes readers on a dark and humorous journey…

Although largely composed by Gogol during self-imposed exile in Italy in the late 1830s, this work remains perhaps the most essentially Russian of novels. The reader follows Chichikov, a dismissed…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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This is the poet and playwright Adrian Mitchell’s version of Gogol’s classic satire on human vanity with its story of a penniless nobody from Moscow who is mistaken for a…

In this original compilation from Skyboat Media and Blackstone Publishing, Nikolai Gogol’s stories range from the whimsical and bizarre to the incisive and satiric, from the horrific and terrifying to…

A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their dead souls, the serfs who have died in their service and…

Nine short stories from the best of the best (Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Turgenev and Gorky) with 18 pt large font for the visually impaired.