The Night Before Christmas (häftad)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Penguin Christmas Classics
Antal sidor
96
Utgivningsdatum
2014-11-06
Förlag
Penguin Books Ltd
Översättare
Anna Summers
Originalspråk
Ryska
Dimensioner
188 x 130 x 15 mm
Vikt
159 g
ISBN
9780143122487

The Night Before Christmas

av Nikolay Gogol, Nikolai Gogol
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Gogol's classic, uproarious folktale, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift. Written in 1831, this dark tale 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. The basis for many film and opera adaptations, and still a story traditionally read aloud to children on Christmas Eve in Ukraine and Russia, The Night Before Christmas is the best holiday tale by the man whom Vladimir Nabokov called 'the greatest writer Russia has yet produced'. Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was the son of a Ukrainian gentleman farmer. He attended a variety of boarding schools, where he proved an indifferent student but was admired for his theatrical abilities. In 1828 he moved to St. Petersburg and began to publish stories, and by the mid-1830s he had established himself in the literary world and been warmly praised by Pushkin. In 1836, his play The Inspector-General was attacked as immoral, and he left Russia, remaining abroad for most of the next dozen years. During that time he wrote two of his best-known stories, 'The Nose' and 'The Overcoat,' and in 1842 he published the first section of his masterpiece Dead Souls. Gogol became increasingly religious as the years passed, and in 1847 he became the disciple of an Orthodox priest who influenced him to burn the second part of Dead Souls and then abandon writing altogether. After undertaking an extreme fast, he died at the age of forty-two.
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    Morpheus, 31 december 2018

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    Den Ukrainsk-födde ryske författaren Nikolai Gogols The Night Before Christmas är en av sex böcker i Penguin Books serie Christmas Classics, där också utgåvor som Hoffmanns Nötknäpparen och Dickens En Julsaga ingår.

    I kort handlar berättelsen om smeden Vakula, som försöker uppvakta sin älskade Oksana men får reda på att hon bara tänker gifta sig med honom om han skaffar ett par utav kejsarinnans skor åt honom, samtidigt som en djävul är lös och... Läs hela recensionen

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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.

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