The Mantle, and Other Stories

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Gogol Nikolai Vasilevich. The Mantle, and Other Stories

PREFACE

THE MANTLE

THE NOSE

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IV

MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN

A MAY NIGHT

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II. THE VILLAGE HEADMAN

III. AN UNEXPECTED RIVAL – THE CONSPIRACY

IV. WILD PRANKS

V. THE DROWNED GIRL

VI. THE AWAKENING

THE VIY

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In a certain Russian ministerial department —

But it is perhaps better that I do not mention which department it was. There are in the whole of Russia no persons more sensitive than Government officials. Each of them believes if he is annoyed in any way, that the whole official class is insulted in his person.

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From that time he became more lively, and his character grew stronger, like that of a man who has set a goal before himself which he will reach at all costs. All that was indecisive and vague in his gait and gestures had disappeared. A new fire began to gleam in his eyes, and in his bold dreams he sometimes even proposed to himself the question whether he should not have a marten-fur collar made for his coat.

These and similar thoughts sometimes caused him to be absent-minded. As he was copying his documents one day he suddenly noticed that he had made a slip. “Ugh!” he exclaimed, and crossed himself.

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