How the Two Ivans Quarelled and Other Russian Comic Stories

How the Two Ivans Quarelled and Other Russian Comic Stories
Title How the Two Ivans Quarelled and Other Russian Comic Stories PDF eBook
Author Nikolai Gogol
Publisher Alma Books
Pages 119
Release 2019-07-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0714548375

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The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the mortal insult that drives them apart, and the ensuing chaos that occurs. This is Gogol's humour at its best, where the most irrelevant-seeming details and turns of phrase suddenly take on a bizarre life of their own. The second story, Ivan Krylov's Panegyric in Memory of My Grandfather, has an ingenuous narrator praise the nobility and modesty of a landowner whose actions prove him to be otherwise. The final two stories, by the Russian satirist Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, are satirical attacks on the inability of civil servants to cope with real life, and on Russia's autocracy. Together, they represent some of Russia's finest comic writing before the twentieth century.

How the Two Ivans Quarrelled

How the Two Ivans Quarrelled
Title How the Two Ivans Quarrelled PDF eBook
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Release 2011
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ISBN 9781847492326

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How the Two Ivans Quarrelled

How the Two Ivans Quarrelled
Title How the Two Ivans Quarrelled PDF eBook
Author Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
Publisher Alma Classics
Pages 0
Release 2011
Genre Interpersonal conflict
ISBN 9781847491732

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How the Two Ivans Quarrelled

How the Two Ivans Quarrelled
Title How the Two Ivans Quarrelled PDF eBook
Author Nikolai Gogol
Publisher Read Books Ltd
Pages 55
Release 2014-12-12
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1473397073

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This early work by Nikolai Gogol was originally published in 1835 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'How the Two Ivans Quarrelled' is a short story about a couple of gentlemen landowners whose friendship is ruined by an argument over a Turkish rifle. To the dismay of their social group, the pair continue to escalate the quarrel and are unable to reach a sensible resolution. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born in Sorochintsi, Ukraine in 1809. In 1831, Gogol brought out the first volume of his Ukrainian stories, 'Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka'. It met with immediate success, and he followed it a year later with a second volume. 'The Nose' is regarded as a masterwork of comic short fiction, and 'The Overcoat' is now seen as one of the greatest short stories ever written; some years later, Dostoyevsky famously stated "We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'." He is seen by many contemporary critics as one of the greatest short story writers who has ever lived, and the Father of Russia's Golden Age of Realism.

Petersburg Tales: New Translation

Petersburg Tales: New Translation
Title Petersburg Tales: New Translation PDF eBook
Author Nikolai Gogol
Publisher Alma Classics
Pages 0
Release 2014-09-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9781847493491

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Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant façade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor (‘The Nose’), a painter and a lieutenant whose romantic pursuits meet with contrasting degrees of success (‘Nevsky Prospect’) and a lowly civil servant whose existence desperately unravels when he loses his prized new coat (‘The Overcoat’). Also including the ‘Diary of Madman’, these Petersburg Tales paint a critical yet hilarious portrait of a city riddled with pomposity and self-importance, masterfully juxtaposing nineteenth-century realism with madcap surrealism, and combining absurdist farce with biting satire.

The Slavonic Review

The Slavonic Review
Title The Slavonic Review PDF eBook
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Pages 818
Release 1925
Genre Europe
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The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

The Overcoat and Other Short Stories
Title The Overcoat and Other Short Stories PDF eBook
Author Nikolai Gogol
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 113
Release 2012-03-05
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0486115178

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Four outstanding works by great 19th-century Russian author: "The Nose," "Old-Fashioned Farmers," "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich," and "The Overcoat."