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Was für ein Prachtmensch Iwan Iwanowitsch doch ist. Einen herrlichen Pelzrock hat er, ein herrliches Haus und die Honoratioren der Gegend sind seine guten Bekannten. Auch Iwan Nikiforowitsch ist ein Prachtmensch. Sein Hof grenzt an den von Iwan Iwanowitsch. Die beiden sind eng befreundet. Nun hat Iwan Iwanowitsch bei Iwan Nikiforowitsch eine wunderschöne Flinte gesehen, die er unbedingt haben will. Drum geht er seinen Nachbarn besuchen, nach dem Mittagessen, bei großer Sommerhitze. Und fragt ihn, auf etlichen Umwegen, wozu der denn eine Flinte brauche. Und ob er ihm nicht die Flinte "verehren" wolle.

"Wie ungeduldig du bist!«, sagte sie ihm leise. »Gleich bist du böse! Warum hast du diese Stunde gewählt? Eine Menge Leute treibt sich auf den Straßen herum... Ich zittere am ganzen Leibe..." "Zittere nicht, meine rote Maßholderbeere! Schmieg dich fester an mich!", sagte der Bursche, sie umarmend, die Laute, die er an einem langen Riemen am Halse hängen hatte, von sich werfend und sich neben dem Mädchen vor die Tür setzend. "Du weißt doch, wie bitter es mir ist, dich auch nur eine Stunde nicht zu sehen."

Mental illness though can still carry a stigma. A case of ‘you’re not trying hard enough’, ‘or knuckling down and getting on with it’. But in more recent decades mental issues have come to be recognised as an illness, a disease rather than an affliction. We all remember horror stories of lobotomy’s and electric shock being used to ‘cure’ what society viewed as anti-social behaviour but illness, mental or physical is very real. Depression, schizophrenia, breakdown, psychosis are alarming events to have or to witness.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born on 1st April 1809 to a father, descended from Ukrainian Cossacks and a mother with a military background in the Ukrainian town of Sorochyntsi, then part of the Russian Empire and rich in Cossack traditions and folklore. Gogol had a profound and enduring impact on literature which can be evidenced from his masterpiece, "The Cloak", more popularly although wrongly translated as "The Overcoat" published in 1841. A hundred years later Vladamir Nabokov called it ‘The greatest Russian short story ever written'.

Eine Reihe seltsamer Begebenheiten ereignen sich in der kleinen Ortschaft Dikanka in der Nacht vor Weihnachten. Während sich die Älteren für einen gemütlichen Abend beim Küster auf den Weg machen und die Jüngeren sich auf das fröhliche Miteinander beim Christsingen vorbereiten, stiehlt ein kleiner, gewitzter Teufel den Mond vom Himmel, um sich an dem Heiligenbilder malenden Dorfschmied zu rächen. Dieser ist in die schöne, aber widerspenstige Oxana verliebt ist und hat es sicherlich auch in dieser Mondnacht vor, sie zu umwerben.

Afanasij Iwanowitsch Towstogub und Pulcherija Iwanowna sind ein altes Gutsbesitzerehepaar, das sich sehr liebt und sich rührend um sich und seine Dienstboten kümmert. Dabei merken sie nicht, dass sie von ihrem Gutsverwalter und den Lakaien bestohlen werden. Kurz vor ihrem Tod gibt Pulcheria letzte Anweisungen für Afanasijs Wohlbefinden: Vor allem an gutem Essen soll es ihm nicht mangeln. Doch ohne ihre Liebe und Fürsorge hat Afanasi keine Freude mehr am Leben und verwahrlost zusehends, bis er schließlich fünf Jahre nach ihr stirbt.

"Diario de un loco", publicada en 1834, es una historia muy corta, de apenas viente páginas, pero que se compensa con lo hilarante y extraño de su contenido, muy al estilo de Gogol. La historia es escrita a manera de diario íntimo contado en primera persona y ordenado cronológicamente por un funcionario público, llamado Aksenti Ivanovich (42 años) y de un apellido extraño, según comentario de uno de los personajes. El diario inicia un tal 3 de octubre, no se precisa el año y se va narrando muy escasamente de lo que le va sucediendo al personaje.

Surrealismus par excellence: Als ein Barbier beim Frühstück eine Nase findet, ist er mehr als verdutzt. Sie gehört seinem Kunden Kowaljow, den er regelmäßig rasiert. Doch alle Versuche, die Nase wieder an ihren Besitzer zurückzugeben, scheitern, denn diese entwickelt ein Eigenleben.

Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the world's leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first instalment of theatrical history.

Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the world's leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first instalment of theatrical history.

Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Robert Morley and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the world's leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first instalment of theatrical history.

The Russian Classics Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 12 classic novels and short stories by Russian authors, read by an award-winning cast of narrators. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Tolstoy; Dostoyevsky; Chekhov; Gogol; Turgenev; and more.

Aksentei es un oficinista para el gobierno que lleva un diario. En este, el personaje, al principio solo cuenta cosas rutinarias de su vida en el trabajo. Lo más inquietante es que siempre escribe como al llegar a casa, duerme por una enorme cantidad de tiempo. Pero todo comienza a cambiar al aparecer signos de locura en Aksentei al escuchar perros que hablan, fechas incongruentes hasta un paulatino descenso a su locura. El Diario de un Loco tiene un importante significado no solo literario sino en el ámbito del estudio de la mente humana.

Gogol's great comic masterpiece paints an hilariously satirical picture of provincial life in 19th century Russia. Its publication in 1847 not only provided inspiration for succeeding generations of Russian writers, but fanned the already flickering flames of social discontent which were eventually to flare up and consume Russia in the revolution of 1917.

A lowly government clerk, Akay Akakiyevich, must scrimp and save to purchase a new coat for the cold Russian winter in “The Overcoat”. But after one night of basking in the warmth of his new coat and the respect of his colleagues, Akaky’s one-of-a-kind overcoat is stolen. In his pursuit of justice, Akaky receives no help and is consumed by the loss of his prized possession. In “The Viy”, Gogol recounts a popular folk story in which a monstrous creature, known to Little Russia as the king of gnomes, helps a witch get revenge on a young student who escaped from her trap.

Gogol's great Russian classic is the Pickwick Papers of Russian literature. It takes a sharp but humorous look at life in all its strata but especially the devious complexities in Russia, with its landowners and serfs. We are introduced to Chichikov, a businessman who, in order to trick the tax authorities, buys up dead 'souls', or serfs, whose names still appear on the government census. Despite being a dealer in phantom crimes and paper ghosts, he is the most beguiling of Gogol's characters.

The Nose is a short story by Nikolai Gogol and was published in 1836. It tells the story of a man (known as Major Kovalyov) who lost his nose in an extraordinarily strange incident. He soon realizes that his nose dressed as a man of high rank and pretending to be a human being: It goes to church and can talk to Kovalyov. He tries to get the nose back on his face in many different ways but the nose refuses to return.

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town with a bizarre but seductive proposition for local landowners. He proposes to buy the names of their serfs who have died but who are still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them. But what collateral will Chichikov receive for these "souls"?

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these "souls" as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Nikolai Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types.

Three of Gogol’s most famous stories, together in one audio collection for the first time.