Essential Novelists - Nikolai Gogol: the foundations of Russian realism

by Nikolai Gogol, August Nemo

Overview

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Nikolai Gogolwhich areDead SoulsandTaras Bulba. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian writer. He contributed to Russian literature through his magnificently crafted dramas, novels and short stories. He was one of the major proponents of the natural school of Russian literary realism. Novels selected for this book: - Dead Souls - Taras Bulba This is one of many books in the seriesEssential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783968584454
Publisher:	Tacet Books
Publication date:	05/03/2020
Series:	Essential Novelists , #27
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	319
File size:	602 KB

About the Author

Russian novelist Nikolai Gogol was born on March 31, 1809, in Sorochintsy, Ukraine. His first successful book wasEvenings on a Farm near Dikanka, which he wrote in the early 1830s, but his 1842 novelDead Soulsis considered his masterpiece. A fanatical priest convinced Gogol to burn the second volume ofDead Soulsin 1952. He died later that year, on March 4, 1852, in Moscow, Russia; it's believed that he starved himself to death.