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.

The life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used by the blind throughout the world.

Contains new English translations of the Russian texts of thirteen stories by early nineteenth-century Ukrainian author Nikolai Gogol, presented in the order of their composition.

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

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.

A simple biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who as a boy created a system by which the blind could read.

A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who created the dot system of reading and writing that is now used by the blind throughout the world.

A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.

Collection of short stories, often venturing into the absurd, depict life in 19th century Russia.

On t.p.: The inventor of a way to read and write that has helped millions of blind people communicate with the world.