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11 Free Nikolai Gogol Books [PDF]

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Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) wrote some of the funniest and strangest books in Russian literature. Born in Ukraine and made famous in St. Petersburg, he turned clerks, landowners and village witches into unforgettable characters.

Here you'll find 11 free Nikolai Gogol books in PDF, from The Overcoat and The Nose to Dead Souls. His short stories mix satire with the surreal, and his great novel follows a swindler who buys dead serfs.

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Short Stories

Nikolai Gogol Short Stories

Most readers start with Gogol's short stories, set in St. Petersburg offices or Ukrainian villages full of witches. The Overcoat and The Nose are classroom favorites, and Viy is still a truly scary tale.

  • The Overcoat

    The Overcoat

    Akaky Akakievich, a poor copying clerk in St. Petersburg, saves for months to buy a new overcoat, and losing it changes everything. Constance Garnett's classic translation, opened by a short note on Gogol and the story's place in Russian literature.

    Nikolai Gogol

    Format: PDF 19 pages 0.1 MB
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  • The Nose

    The Nose

    A St. Petersburg official wakes up without his nose and then spots it riding around the city in the uniform of a higher rank. Gogol's funniest and most absurd tale, complete in a short, easy-to-read edition.

    Nikolai Gogol

    Format: PDF 25 pages 0.13 MB
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  • Diary of a Madman

    Diary of a Madman

    A lowly clerk in love with his director's daughter writes a diary that slides from office gossip to talking dogs and the conviction that he is the King of Spain. A short, darkly comic portrait of a mind coming apart.

    Nikolai Gogol

    Format: PDF 31 pages 0.2 MB
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  • The Viy

    The Viy

    A seminary student is forced to read prayers for three nights over the coffin of a young witch, while the dead rise around him. Gogol's famous horror tale from Ukrainian folklore in Claud Field's translation, with the author's note on the Viy.

    Nikolai Gogol

    Format: PDF 40 pages 0.18 MB
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  • The Portrait

    The Portrait

    A poor young painter buys an old portrait whose eyes seem alive, and finds a roll of gold hidden in its frame. Gogol's two-part tale about art, ambition and a bargain with evil, set in St. Petersburg.

    Nikolai Gogol

    Format: PDF 34 pages 0.17 MB
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  • The Night of Christmas Eve

    The Night of Christmas Eve

    On Christmas Eve a witch and the devil steal the moon, and the blacksmith Vakula rides the devil all the way to St. Petersburg to win the slippers his sweetheart demands. A merry Ukrainian folk tale from Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka.

    Nikolai Gogol

    Format: PDF 44 pages 0.2 MB
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  • Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka

    Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka

    Gogol's first book: eight Ukrainian village tales of witches, devils, fairs and Christmas mischief, told by the beekeeper Rudy Panko. This illustrated edition gathers both parts, including Christmas Eve and St. John's Eve.

    Nikolai Gogol

    Format: PDF 276 pages 4.37 MB
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  • The Mantle and Other Stories

    The Mantle and Other Stories

    Five of Gogol's best tales in one volume: The Mantle (The Overcoat), The Nose, Memoirs of a Madman, A May Night and the horror story The Viy. Claud Field's translation, with a preface on Gogol as a satirist.

    Nikolai Gogol

    Format: PDF 152 pages 0.65 MB
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Novels and Plays

Nikolai Gogol Novels and Plays

Gogol called Dead Souls a poem in prose, then burned its second part days before his death. The Inspector General, his comedy about a fake official, is still staged all over the world.

  • Dead Souls

    Dead Souls

    Chichikov rides through provincial Russia buying the names of serfs who have died, a swindle that exposes every landowner he meets. Gogol's great comic novel in D. J. Hogarth's translation, with John Cournos's introduction and the surviving chapters of Part Two.

    Nikolai Gogol

    Format: PDF 245 pages 2.55 MB
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  • Taras Bulba and Other Tales

    Taras Bulba and Other Tales

    The Cossack epic of old Taras Bulba and his two sons at war, followed by St. John's Eve, The Cloak, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, The Mysterious Portrait and The Calash. Historical adventure and Gogol's comedy in one volume.

    Nikolai Gogol

    Format: PDF 225 pages 0.74 MB
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  • The Inspector-General

    The Inspector-General

    A penniless clerk is mistaken for a government inspector traveling incognito, and a whole town of corrupt officials rushes to bribe him. Gogol's five-act comedy, complete with the cast list and stage directions.

    Nikolai Gogol

    Format: PDF 81 pages 0.37 MB
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Dostoevsky is often credited with saying "We all came out from under Gogol's Overcoat." Chekhov, Bulgakov and Kafka all owe something to his mix of comedy and nightmare.

Gogol was a close friend of Pushkin and spent years in Rome before he died in Moscow in 1852. Find more great writers in our classic authors collection.

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