Collected Stories - format ePub

Ce livre contient les ouvrages suivants classés par ordre alphabétique (noms de famille auteurs ) Le Grand Meaulnes [Alain-Fournier] Alcools [Guillaume Apollinaire] Les Diaboliques [Jules Amédée Barbey...

Ein scharfsinniger, satirischer Roman über Macht, Gier und die Abgründe der menschlichen Seele. Tschitschikow, ein charmant manipulativer Antiheld, durchstreift die russische Provinz auf der Suche nach...

Se Púchkin foi o grande poeta da literatura russa moderna, Nikolai Gogol foi o seu grande prosador e «Almas Mortas» o seu grande livro. Este escritor ucraniano imaginou uma grande obra épica que não só...

"The Fair at Sorochyntsi" by Nikolai Gogol is a short story set in a Ukrainian village in 1800. A man travels with his daughter and wife to a fair to sell some of their belongings. Their lives are quickly...

Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls is one of the best-known pieces of 19th-century Russian literature. Chichikov is a mysterious man, who arrives at a small town with a strange plan of acquiring "dead souls."...

Teeming with dark humour, supernatural elements, and hard-to-believe situations, Nikolai Gogol’s "Collected Stories" is a highest form of short story fiction. With stories like "The Mantle", "The Nose",...

The last story from the "Mirgorod" cycle, here Gogol presents two landowners deadlocked in an argument over a Turkish rifle, a brown pig, and a goose insult. What results is a playful satire and parody...

How far will a man go for love? The short story "St. John's Eve" by Nikolai Gogol from the 19th century recounts the sinister events that transpired in a poor hamlet generations ago, as relayed by the...

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...

"A most extraordinary thing happened in St. Petersburg on the twenty-fifth of March." The opening lines of "The Nose", one of Gogol’s best-known stories, and quite possibly the most absurd, are just as...

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...

With his sense of humor and ability to observe, Nikolai Gogol presents the world with stories of little people: the weak and fragile people who try to hold on to life in the gloomy cities of Russia. "The...

"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...

Créée à Saint-Pétersbourg en 1836, d'après une histoire racontée à Gogol par Pouchkine, Le Révizor est la plus célèbre comédie du théâtre russe : Khlestakof, un jeune voyageur, tout juste arrivé dans...

Venez découvrir Le Révizor, la pièce de théâtre de Nikolaï Gogol, grâce à une analyse littéraire de référence. Écrite par un spécialiste universitaire, cette fiche de lecture est recommandée par de nombreux...

Venez découvrir Le Mariage, la pièce de théâtre de Nikolaï Gogol, grâce à une analyse littéraire de référence. Écrite par un spécialiste universitaire, cette fiche de lecture est recommandée par de nombreux...

La collection « Connaître une œuvre » vous offre la possibilité de tout savoir du Mariage, de Nikolai Gogol, grâce à une fiche de lecture aussi complète que détaillée. La rédaction, claire et accessible,...

La collection « Connaître une œuvre » vous offre la possibilité de tout savoir du Révizor de Nikolai Gogol grâce à une fiche de lecture aussi complète que détaillée. La rédaction, claire et accessible,...

Connaissez-vous la nuit de l’Ukraine ? oh ! vous ne connaissez pas la nuit de l’Ukraine. Contemplez-la. Au milieu du ciel, la lune regarde ; la voûte incommensurable s’étend et paraît plus incommensurable...

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....

Quatre nouvelles et récits de célèbres auteurs russes en version bilingue. La série BILINGUE de 12-21 propose :• une traduction fidèle et intégrale, accompagnée de nombreuses notes • une méthode originale...

Prometheus Classics est la référence en matière d'oeuvre classique. Toutes nos oeuvres sont de bonne qualité et contienne une table des matières active ( HTML ), ce qui vous facilitera la lecture. Le...

Se Pushkin foi o grande poeta da literatura russa moderna, Nikolai Gogol foi o seu grande prosador e «Almas Mortas» o seu grande livro. Este escritor ucraniano imaginou uma grande obra épica que não só...

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"'You are sharing the Dark Lord's thoughts and emotions. The Headmaster thinks it inadvisable for this to continue. He wishes me to teach you how to close your mind to the Dark Lord.'" Dark times have...

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting Dune Messiah, the sequel to one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for...

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There was a war on when Thomas was young, and now that it's done, he finds a dubious retirement from soldiering in acting as a magic man. He's worn the mantle of a wizard long enough that he can't remember...

Everything happens for a reason.The Fates pay Samantha and Kathy a visit when the sisters' misstep, which left a man the target of a vampire bite, leads to unimaginable consequences in the future.Unconvinced...

The full, unabridged Shroud Saga is available for the first time, encompassing the Olivia & Hale Series and its spinoff, The Book of Death. Chronicling the rise and fall of a pair of celestial misfits...

He's the villain she can't resist, and she's the princess he'll never let go…She was supposed to be a delicate little thing, locked away in a tower, waiting for a hero.Too bad the villain got to her first.Rapunzel...

Six years ago, Laura Jefferies was saved from her burning house and taken to another world by two strangers, only to learn that she could not return home. Her only chance of getting back to her family...

"Ira is a young noblewoman harboring a dark secret... She can control fire.In the citadel of Elyron where Ira lives, women are strictly forbidden from using magic. Only men are permitted to harness it...

"You are going to marry someone of royal blood, and it will happen within a month, or I'll disown you and make your cousin my heir. That's my final word. Get on with it."Crown Prince Serron of Monce had...

This ebook compiles Jule Verne's complete collection, including "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth", "The Mysterious Island", "Around the World in Eighty Days",...

This ebook contains Oscar Wilde's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)...

"Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'."Harry Potter has never even heard...

A funny, emotional and uplifting novel from the French Marian Keyes. 'Heartwarming' Good Housekeeping'A gorgeous story, charming and funny and poignant' Nicola Cornick For fans of Ruth Hogan, Veronica...

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What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for more than half a century,...

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A heart-wrenching grim cozy pirate's tale with a little bit of romance. This is not 'Cozy' in the traditional sense, unless you find misery and betrayal to be as comforting as a cup of hot cocoa."This...

The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the Number One New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive. Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future...

The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom...

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