Taras Bulba
A novel set in the Ukraine in the 16th century that narrates the nomadic life of the Cossack warriors, their training, their camps and campaigns against the Poles. The protagonist is Tarass, a colonel and...
GOGOL, Nikolai
Dead Souls
Chichikov buys 400 servants, or "dead souls" at a low price in order to fake his possession but after a while the sellers become suspicious. From this point, Gogol tells the life of Chichikov who tried to...
The Portrait
A painter buys a portrait of a man with extraordinary eyes. The image seems to have a will of its own, seems to pursue him, and induces him to do evil. He sells himself to money, to society, to fashion;...