The Night of Christmas Eve - format ePub

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In ‘The Night of Christmas Eve’ the Devil roams free and decides to steal the moon to punish Vakula, a local blacksmith for his religious paintings, leaving the town of Dikanka in darkness. In this supernatural...

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In Nikolai Gogol's short story "May Night, or the Drowned Maiden," a single night ends up changing the lives of many. Young Levko is the son of the head of a Ukrainian village and madly in love with a...

Listed among the most beloved Russian plays, "The Inspector General" is a vivid portrayal of human greed and foolishness. Savagely criticizing the political corruption of Imperial Russia, the play tells...

‘Memoirs of a Madman’ is a fascinating short following Poprishchin, a minor civil servant, as he descends into insanity. Unique in Golgol’s collection, it is the only story he wrote completely from the...

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"The Old World Landowners" is a short story written in 1835. It is the first tale in the "Mirgorod" collection by Nikolai Gogol. The story is a vivid representation of the old-fashioned way of life in...

Dans une ville provinciale de Russie, le mystérieux Tchitchikov offre aux propriétaires terriens de leur racheter leurs « âmes mortes » – leurs serfs décédés depuis le dernier recensement. Galerie de...

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Sous le nom de l'apiculteur Panko le Rouge, Gogol signe avec ces veillées ses débuts littéraires. Il y mêle, dans une veine où le comique côtoie le fantastique, les souvenirs de son enfance, de ces récits...

Cet ebook bénéficie d’une mise en page esthétique optimisée pour la lecture numérique.Cette nouvelle fut écrite par Nikolaï Gogol, romancier, dramaturge, nouvelliste, poète et critique littéraire d'origine...

Lorsque Khlestakov, jeune voyageur pétersbourgeois endetté et affamé, arrive dans «un petit trou de province», il ne s’attend pas à un tel accueil. Hébergement, vins, cigares, vêtements et équipages élégants:...

En douze chants, Gogol conte l'épopée du vieux Tarass Boulba et de ses deux fils, Ostap et André, partis de l'Ukraine avec tous les Cosaques zaporogues dans une guerre sans merci contre les Polonais....

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