Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant turned confidence man, comes up with a plan to elevate his social standing by buying the souls of dead peasants. Includes an introduction, chronology, and notes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
