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Dead Souls Annotated (Wordsworth Classics)

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Dead Souls Annotated (Wordsworth Classics) written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol, is a work of prose poetry about the protagonist, Tchitchikov, who purchases dead souls to become wealthy. The story takes place in the 1800s, in post-Napoleonic Russia. At the time, there were landowners and serfs. Landownersowned the serfs, so wealth was determined, not by the amount of land he owned, but by the number of souls he owned-the serfs. Gogol uses satire to comment on the noble class of Russian society.As serfs perish, Tchitchikov travels through the countryside, buying dead souls. He buys dead souls because he can get them for less money, allowing him to increase his wealth and, therefore, his social standing. Tchitchikov starts out in a town referred to as "N." Everyone in the town is excited about his arrival, because he is a stranger. His background is in academia, and no one there knows why he has come to N. The people like him immediately, and he soon receives many invitations to visit friends throughout the countryside.The first person Tchitchikov calls on is Manilov. Manilov is so eager to become friends with the charismatic and well-liked Tchitchikov, he offers to sell him souls without putting up much of a fuss. He plans to visit a character named Sobakevitch next, but before he can get there, a storm strikes. Madame Korobotchka provides him shelter during the storm, and they get to talking. He wants to buy her dead souls, and she agrees to sell them. He sets out after that to see Sobakevitch.Tchitchikov is delayed again when he stops in at a tavern. There he meets Nozdroyov, whom he also met in the town of N. Nozdroyov convinces Tchitchikov to visit him at his house, and he agrees. There, they eat and drink, and Tchitchikov reveals his plan to buy dead souls, but he regrets revealing his secret as soon as he says it. Nozdroyov turns rude and tells Tchitchikov that he will not sell him souls. He tries to get him to play a game of cards, and when Tchitchikov refuses, Nozdroyov tries to attack him. Tchitchikov is saved when the police arrive to arrest Nozdroyov. As it happens, he had been in a brawl a few nights before. The arrest allows Tchitchikov to escape.When he returns to town, he is impressed with his good fortune. He now owns more than four hundred dead souls, and when the other people of N learn about it, they are impressed that he has become so wealthy. He becomes the center of society's focus, and at a ball held by one of the townspeople, everyone is talking about him. But when Nozdroyov shows up, he begins to rant about dead souls and Tchitchikov. Everyone else in attendance is confused; they do not understand what Nozdroyov is trying to tell them.The next day, Tchitchikov is feeling under the weather. His sickness stops him from visiting others. Madam Korobotchka comes to N, believing that he charged her too much for her dead souls. Soon, people switch from saying nice things about him to bad things about him. In addition to their talk about his buying dead souls, they spread other rumors about him. Tchitchikov flees the town in embarrassment.After fleeing, he does not give up his mission to buy dead souls. In town after town, he meets rich friends and gets into their circles of power and money. He soon transitions into doing anything for money, not just buying dead souls. He comes up with scheme after scheme to get his hands on money, and fast, so that his influence in society can continue to grow. Finally, he stoops to stealing from a dying woman. This leads to his arrest, though because of his influential friends, he is released despite the charges against him.A prominent theme in Dead Souls is immorality. Tchitchikov starts out doing something that some would consider harmless enough. Yes, he is buying dead souls in order to own more souls but pay less for them, but though he does not advertise his plans, the people selling the souls do not seem to mind.

The New Annotated Dracula

Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393064506
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book The New Annotated Dracula written by Bram Stoker and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes" returns with this spectacular, lavishly illustrated homage to Bram Stoker's "Dracula." 35 color and 400 b&w illustrations.

Dead Souls Illustrated

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Dead Souls Illustrated written by Nikolai Gogol and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Souls is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The novel chronicles the travels and adventures of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov and the people whom he encounters. These people typify the Russian middle-class of the time.

Dead Souls

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026897544
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Dead Souls written by Nikolai Gogol and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chichikov, a middle-aged gentleman of middling social class and means, arrives in a small town and turns on the charm to woo key local officials and landowners. He reveals little about his past, or his purpose, as he sets about carrying out his bizarre and mysterious plan to acquire "dead souls." The government would tax the landowners based on how many serfs (or "souls") the landowner owned, determined by the census. Censuses in this period were infrequent, so landowners would often be paying taxes on serfs that were no longer living, thus the "dead souls." It is these dead souls, existing on paper only, that Chichikov seeks to purchase from the landlords in the villages he visits. Setting off for the surrounding estates, Chichikov at first assumes that the ignorant provincials will be more than eager to give their dead souls up in exchange for a token payment. The task of collecting the rights to dead people proves difficult, however, due to the persistent greed, suspicion, and general distrust of the landowners.

The Government Inspector and Other Works

Author : Nikolái Gogol
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781840227291
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Government Inspector and Other Works written by Nikolái Gogol and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2014-09-07 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government Inspector, also known as The Inspector General, is a satirical play by the Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol. The play is a comedy of errors, satirizing human greed, stupidity, and the extensive political corruption of Imperial Russia.

Petersburg Tales: New Translation

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Alma Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781847493491
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Book Synopsis Petersburg Tales: New Translation by : Nikolai Gogol

Download or read book Petersburg Tales: New Translation written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Alma Classics. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant façade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor (‘The Nose’), a painter and a lieutenant whose romantic pursuits meet with contrasting degrees of success (‘Nevsky Prospect’) and a lowly civil servant whose existence desperately unravels when he loses his prized new coat (‘The Overcoat’). Also including the ‘Diary of Madman’, these Petersburg Tales paint a critical yet hilarious portrait of a city riddled with pomposity and self-importance, masterfully juxtaposing nineteenth-century realism with madcap surrealism, and combining absurdist farce with biting satire.

Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393616924
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) written by William Wordsworth and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most accessible edition of Wordsworth’s poetry and prose, prepared to meet the needs of both students and scholars. This Norton Critical Edition presents a generous selection of William Wordworth’s poetry (including the thirteen-book Prelude of 1805) and prose works along with supporting materials for in-depth study. Together, the Norton Critical Editions of Wordsworth’s Poetry and Prose and The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 are the essential texts for studying this author. Wordsworth’s Poetry and Prose includes a large selection of texts chronologically arranged, thereby allowing readers to trace the author’s evolving interests and ideas. An insightful general introduction and textual introduction precede the texts, each of which is fully annotated. Illustrative materials include maps, manuscript pages, and title pages. “Criticism” collects thirty responses to Wordsworth’s poetry and prose spanning three centuries by British and American authors. Contributors include Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Felicia Hemans, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lucy Newlyn, Stephen Gill, Neil Fraistat, Mary Jacobus, Nicholas Roe, M. H. Abrams, Karen Swann, Michael O’Neill, and Geoffrey Hartman, among others. The volume also includes a Chronology, a Biographical Register, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles and First Lines of Poems.

Grasmere 2013: Selected Papers from the Wordsworth Summer Conference

Author : Richard Gravil
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1847603300
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Grasmere 2013: Selected Papers from the Wordsworth Summer Conference written by Richard Gravil and published by Humanities-Ebooks. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of presentations from the Wordsworth Summer Conference opens with Heidi Thomson's fresh new approach to Wordsworth's 'Salisbury Plain' narrative, and closes with Deirdre Coleman investigating the Keats Circle's interest in Indian culture and mythology. Christopher Simons offers an extended treatment of 'Ecclesiastical Sketches' in the context of Wordsworth's career. In other Wordsworth papers, Peter Larkin writes on Wordsworth in the City, Tom Clucas on Wordsworth and Petrarch, Daniel Robinson on an editorial crux in the early 'Prelude', Rowan Boyson on Wordsworth's 'anosmia', Simon Swift on Wordsworth and Charles le Brun, and Richard Gravil on 'sacred sites' in the poetry, from the Chartreuse to Long Meg. Kimiyo Ogawa writes on Godwin, Hazlittt and disinterestedness; Alexandras Paterson on Shelley and Atmospheric Science, and Richard Lansdown on James Montgomery's electrifying poem,' Pelican Island'.

Ulysses Annotated

Author : Don Gifford
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520253971
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Ulysses Annotated written by Don Gifford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-01-14 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed. of: Notes for Joyce: an annotation of James Joyce's Ulysses, 1974.

Treasure Island

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Treasure Island written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.

The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486115178
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Overcoat and Other Short Stories written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four outstanding works by great 19th-century Russian author: "The Nose," "Old-Fashioned Farmers," "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich," and "The Overcoat."

Letters from London

Author : Cyril Lionel Robert James
Publisher : Signal Books
ISBN 13 : 9781902669618
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Letters from London written by Cyril Lionel Robert James and published by Signal Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals CLR James' first encounter with the colonial metropolis and the values that had already shaped his intellectual development in Trinidad. A resurrected 'classic', this book provides a hitherto inaccessible picture of the young man during his formative period.

The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse

Author :
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141958677
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1998-10-19 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Karlin has selected poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (1837-1901). Giving pride of place to Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Christina Rossetti, the volume offers generous selections from other major poets such asArnold, Emily Bronte, Hardy and Hopkins, and makes room for several poem-sequences in their entirety. It is wonderful, too, in its discovery and inclusion of eccentric, dissenting, un-Victorian voices, poets who squarely refuse to 'represent' their period. It also includes the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Meredith, James Thomson and Augusta Webster.

Routledge Library Editions: Wordsworth and Coleridge

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317202783
Total Pages : 2846 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Wordsworth and Coleridge written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 2846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the publication of their joint collection of poems Lyrical Ballads in 1798, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were instrumental in helping to establish the Romantic Movement as a major force in nineteenth century British literature. Two of the movement’s greatest figures, they were responsible for composing some of the most well-known poems in the British literary canon and influenced generations of acolytes. They were also the foremost literary critics of the period, contributing influential writings on literary theory and philosophy — exemplified by Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria. ‘Routledge Library Editions: Wordsworth and Coleridge’ assembles a wide range of scholarship and criticism that covers all aspects of their diverse output and charts the vicissitudes of their lives — examining their poetry, criticism, philosophy and sources of inspiration. It will also help introduce them to newer readers and explain notoriously difficult to understand works like Wordsworth’s The Prelude. This set reissues 14 books originally published between 1960 and 1991 and will be of interest to students of literature and literary history.

Notes from the Underground

Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1606800809
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Notes from the Underground written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dead Souls

Author : Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
Publisher : Wordsworth Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781840226379
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Dead Souls written by Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ and published by Wordsworth Classics. This book was released on 2010 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic fiction. With an Introduction by Tony BriggsRussia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up d̀ead souls.

The Excursion - Being a Portion of 'The Recluse', a Poem

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528789431
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The Excursion - Being a Portion of 'The Recluse', a Poem written by William Wordsworth and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1814, “The Excursion” is the second and only completed part of Wordsworth's three-part work “The Recluse”. It is a long poem that revolves around three central figures: the Solitary, who has lived through the horrors and hopes of the French Revolution; the Pastor, to whom a third of the poem is dedicated; and the Wanderer. “The Excursion” enjoyed popularity in the nineteenth century and is highly recommended for fans and collectors of Wordsworth's fantastic work. Included in this edition is an introductory excerpt from “Reminiscences” (1881) by Thomas Carlyle. William Wordsworth (1770–1850) was an English Romantic poet famous for helping to usher in the Romantic Age in English literature with the publication of “Lyrical Ballads” (1798), which he co-wrote with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His best known work is perhaps “The Prelude”, a semi-autobiographical poem from his early years which was changed and expanded many times throughout his life. He was poet laureate of Britain between 1843 until his death in 1850. Other notable works by this author include: “The Tables Turned”, “The Thorn”, and “Lines Composed A Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”.