The Mantle, and Other Stories
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Excerpt from The Mantle and Other StoriesAs a novel-writer and a dramatist, Gogol appears to me to deserve a minute study, and if the knowledge of Russian were more widely Spread, he could not fail to obtain in Europe a reputation equal to that of the best English humorists.A delicate and close observer, quick to detect the absurd, bold in exposing, but inclined to push his fun too far, Gogol is in the first place a very lively satirist. He is merciless towards fools and rascals, but he has only one weapon at his disposal - irony. This is a weapon which is too severe to use against the merely ...
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- THE MANTLE AND OTHER STORIES
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- THE MANTLE
- THE NOSE
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN
- A MAY NIGHT
- I
- II THE VILLAGE HEADMAN
- III AN UNEXPECTED RIVAL—THE CONSPIRACY
- IV WILD PRANKS
- V THE DROWNED GIRL
- VI THE AWAKENING
- THE VIY
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