1809-1852

Reprints five short stories by nineteenth-century Ukrainian author Nikolai Gogol, including the title work in which a government clerk chronicles in his diary his growing love for his superior's daughter, as well as his slip into insanity.

Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted most of all was to be able to read. And so he invented his own alphabet - a whole new system for writing that he could read by touch.

Tells the life story of Louis Braille, the nineteenth-century man who lost his sight at the age of three and developed an alphabet for blind people when he was fifteen.

Biography of Louis Braille, who became blind at the age of three, invented a system of punched dots that would enable blind people to read.

Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted most of all was to be able to read. And so he invented his own alphabet - a whole new system for writing that he could read by touch.

A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.

The first part of the book is on Realism, with essays on Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol. The second part of the book shows how Dostoevsky this tradition and made it his own.

Presents four short fiction stories by nineteenth-century Russian author Nikolai Gogol, including the title work about a poor, and much-ridiculed St. Petersburg official.

Looks at the life of Louis Braille, telling the story of how he came to invent the Braille system of type for blind readers.