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(Paperback)

By: Nikolay Gogol

ISBN: 9780140448078
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2004
UK Publication Date: 29th July 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these 'dead souls' as collateral to re-invent himself as a aristocrat.


(Paperback)

By: Nikolay Gogol

ISBN: 9780140449075
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st December 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes a selection of short fiction and famous dramas. This book includes stories ranging from comic to tragic and describes the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers.


(Hardback)

By: Nikolay Gogol

ISBN: 9780143122487
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Relates the adventures of Vakula, the blacksmith, in his fight against the devil, who has stolen the moon above the village of Dikanka and is wreaking havoc on its inhabitants, all to win the love of the most beautiful girl in town.


(Paperback)

By: Nikolay Gogol

ISBN: 9780141397528
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th February 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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With this pair of absurd, comic stories, the author indulges his imagination and delights readers.