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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpiec...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, trans. D. J. Hogarth, ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...8. Died on 21st February 1852. INTRODUCTION Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, “the ... ...v himself is now gener- ally regarded as a universal character. We find an American professor, William Lyon Phelps*, of Yale, holding the opinion that... ... Lyon Phelps*, of Yale, holding the opinion that “no one can travel far in America without meeting scores of Chichikovs; indeed, he is an accurate por... ...5; The Cloak, 1835; The Revizor (The Inspector-General), 1836; Dead Souls, 1842; Correspondence with Friends, 1847. ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS: Cossack Tale... ...added to the shelter afforded by a rugged ravine, has enabled the flora of north and south so to be brought together that, twined about with sinuous h... ... of keen, cracking frost may have bound the streets, and the family of the North Wind be wailing there, and the Snowstorm Witch have heaped high the p...

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...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Five A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...es, and the result is a thor- ough diffusion of the proper feeling. But in America, the coins current being the sole arms of the aristocracy, their di... ...- nies to twirl it by steam. Glare is a leading error in the philosophy of American house- hold decoration—an error easily recognised as deduced from ... ...d de- 39 V olume Five velop my morals:—that is the secret. By and by the “North American Quarterly Humdrum” will make them ashamed of their stupidity... ... of course, with the occa- sion. The author who, after the fashion of “The North Ameri- can Review,” should be upon all occasions merely “quiet,” must... ...led the destinies of American Letters, in conducting the thing called “The North American Review.” The poem just cited is espe- cially beautiful; but ... ...me Five with the two stanzas transposed, in “Graham’s Magazine” for March, 1842, as “To One Departed.” 11. “To F— —s S. O—d,” a portion of the poet’s ...