| St. John's Eve Contributor(s): Hapgood, Isabel (Translator), Gogol, Nikolai (Author) |
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ISBN: 1499595247 ISBN-13: 9781499595246 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.73 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2014 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Physical Information: 0.07" H x 5.06" W x 7.81" (0.09 lbs) 32 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol 31 March 1809 - 4 March 1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer. Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism and the grotesque ("The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat," "Nevsky Prospekt"). His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and folklore. His later writing satirised political corruption in the Russian Empire (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls), leading to his eventual exile. The novel Taras Bulba (1835) and the play Marriage (1842), along with the short stories "Diary of a Madman", "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", "The Portrait" and "The Carriage", round out the tally of his best-known works. |