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Nikolai vasilievich gogol 31 march 1809 4 march 1852 was a ukrainianborn russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer. Dead souls by nikolai vasilievich gogol full text free. The play was edited and directed by talal alremal, and supervised by the director. Petersburg, this is a simple story of a common man who lives a quiet life, a gentle soul. As friend of the great aleksandr sergeeyivich pushkin, the shakespeare of russian literature, he helped pushkin realize his genius and at the same time wrote some of the most famous and entertaining short stories of all the gogol always had sympathy for the little guy. The gogol of this novel finds meaning in the story, after struggling with the name given to him by his father. Pdf the concept of angst in nokolai gogols the nose. These are two volumes of the complete short stories from nikolai gogol dead souls is not included. The main characters of this short stories, fiction story are. The inspectorgeneral ebook written by nikolai gogol.
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