Nikolai Gogol

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Allan Corduner, best known for his extensive stage and screen credits including Homeland, Da Vinci's Demons and portraying Sir Arthur Sullivan to Jim Broadbent's Gilbert in Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy. This definitive recording...

Il maggiore Kovalev si risveglia una mattina senza il proprio naso. Tra smarrimento, vanità ferita e tentativi disperati di ristabilire l'ordine, la vicenda si trasforma in una satira tagliente dell'apparenza sociale, della burocrazia e dell'identità personale.

Nel cuore gelido di una San Pietroburgo burocratica e spietata vive Akakij Akakievič, un umile impiegato ministeriale il cui unico scopo nella vita è copiare documenti.

Nel cuore di San Pietroburgo, lungo la celebre Prospettiva Nevskij, si incrociano destini, illusioni e apparenze che ingannano.

The Russian Classics Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 12 classic novels and short stories by Russian authors, read by an award-winning cast of narrators.

Famed for his effortless blend of satire and realism, Gogol is often considered the Godfather of Russian literature. At turns witty and whimsical, dark and ominous, his stories thrived on vibrant language, absurdist techniques as well as elements of the grotesque.

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 the nonsensical and hilarious. A lowly government clerk, Akay Akakiyevich, must scrimp and...

Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas from the literature of Russia....

Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily...

Eine Nase entweicht ihrem Besitzer und geht promenieren; ein verarmter Maler entdeckt eine Menge Golddukaten im Rahmen eines preiswert erworbenen Porträts; -unterdrückt und gepeinigt im Beruf und hoffnungslos verliebt, flüchtet sich ein Titularrat in seine eigene Welt, der Eindruck eines...

From sweeping tales of war and philosophy to darkly comic journeys through bureaucracy and haunting visions of dystopia, this collection gathers some of the most profound and provocative works ever written.

Taras Bulba is a romanticized historical novella by Nikolai Gogol. It describes the life of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons...

These stories have earned their place in the pantheon of great literature. Their authors, Guy de Maupassant, Nikolai Gogol, and Oscar Wilde, are indisputable masters of the short story.

The story centers on an impoverished clerk who is dedicated to his job as a routine copyist but not recognized for his hard work....

Gogol's classic takes a sharp but humorous look at life in all its strata but especially the devious complexities in Russia, with its landowners and serfs....

The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories is a bizarre and colorful collection containing the finest short stories by the iconic Russian writer Nikolai Gogol....

It’s really very simple. You will sell me your eternal soul and in return I shall make you fabulously rich, powerful, talented and famous for your entire Earthly life. Or maybe even eternity.

Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas from the literature of Russia....

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that are difficult to achieve elsewhere.

In 1722, Peter the Great introduced a system of positions and ranks for the military, the government, and the Russian court which enabled commoners to gain a modicum of nobility through service to the state. He did so in order to diminish the power of the hereditary nobility with whom he was...