Nikolay Gogol

Gebundenes Buch

The Night Before Christmas

Beschreibung

Relates the adventures of Vakula, the blacksmith, in his fight against the devil, who has stolen the moon above the village of Dikanka and is wreaking havoc on its inhabitants, all to win the love of the most beautiful girl in town.

Autor

Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) was born in the Ukraine and left for St Peterburg at the age of 19 where he published a collection of short stories and for a short time held the post of professor of history at the university. Gogol's experience of life in St Petersburg informed his savagely satirical play, The Government Inspector, and a series of brilliant short stories including Nevsky Prospekt and Notes of a Madman. From 1836 to 48, Gogol lived abroad, mainly in Rome, where he was working on his comic epic Dead Souls - a work he wrestled with for the rest of his life before renouncing literature and burning parts of the manuscript shortly before he died.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Christmas Classics
• Verlag: Penguin US
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 399646
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2014
• Deutsch, Englisch
• Abmessung: 189mm x 127mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 164g
• ISBN-13: 9780143122487
• ISBN-10: 0143122487
• Artikelnr.: 40542553

Rezensionen

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