The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories is a bizarre and colourful collection containing the finest short stories by the iconic Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. From the witty and Kafkaesque The Nose, where a civil servant wakes up one day to find his nose missing, to the moving and evocative The Overcoat, about a reclusive man whose only ambition is to replace his old, threadbare coat, Gogol gives us a unique take on the absurd. Gogol’s tales of inconsequential civil servants, mixing the everyday with the surreal, foreshadow the work of his later acolytes, Bulgakov and Kafka. None is more cutting than the main story, The Diary of a Madman, where a government clerk descends to insanity, claiming that he can communicate with dogs and that he is next in line to the throne of Spain.
The Big Book of Christmas. Classic Stories and Poems. (100 Books) : The Gift of the Magi, The Red Room, A Letter from Santa Claus, The Fir Tree, Song of the Holly and others
Charles Dickens, G.K. Chesterton, Montgomery L.M., L. Frank Baum, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Léon Tolstoï, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nikolai Gogol, William Dean Howells, Joseph Rudyard Kipling, Harrison Elizabeth, John Milton, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlof, Clement Moore, Henry Van Dyke, Potter Beatrix, Anton Chekhov
book50+ Masterpieces you have to read before you die. Christmas Stories and Poems : A Christmas Carol, A Merry Christmas, A Letter from Santa Claus, Christmas Bells, The Gift of the Magi and others
Charles Dickens, G.K. Chesterton, Montgomery L.M., Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Léon Tolstoï, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nikolai Gogol, William Dean Howells, Joseph Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlof, Clement Moore, Henry Van Dyke, Potter Beatrix, O. Henry, Stretton Hesba, Kenneth Grahame, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, Alfred Tennyson, Abbie Farwell Brown, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, C. W. Stubbs, Field Eugene, Paul Laurence Dunbar, William Topaz McGonagall, Emily Dickinson, L. Frank Baum, Harrison Elizabeth, Anton Chekhov
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