Gogol's Petersburg tales include "The Overcoat," considered Gogol's masterpiece, a story about an obscure St. Petersburg bureaucrat. Gogol has been called the father of Russian modernism and realism. His stories, with their humor and archetypal Russian characters, had a profound influence on Dostoevsky, Nabokov, and others.
Benchmark expert Christopher E. Bogan and corporate quality director Michael J. English walk management through their 9-step benchmarking model - from improving baseline trends to achieving world-class quality leadership. Recognizing that successful benchmarking often, demands dramatic changes in corporate attitudes - and an end to the "not ...
'Rus! Russ!...Everything within you is open, desolate, and flat; your squat towns barely protrude above the level of your wide plains, marking them like little dots, like specks; here is nothing to entice and fascinate the onlooker's gaze. Yet whence this unfathomable, uncanny force that draws me to you?' Although Dead Souls (1842) was largely ...
The study of Canadian legal history has seen a remarkable growth in the past decade, nowhere more so than in Atlantic Canada. Given its early settlement and some of the liberties taken with legal procedure there - as well as some creative interpretations of English law - the region is ripe for close study in the legal history field. This new ...
"Village Evenings Near Dikana" and "Mirgorod" are Gogol's first two collections of stories, published in 1831 and 1835 respectively. With a detached and ironic romanticism, the stories present the characters, customs, and the tall tales of his native Ukraine.
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United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, William Albert Jones, Stanhope English Blunt, Theodore Bryant Comstock, Charles Lawrence Heizmann, Charles Christopher Parry, Joseph Duncan Putnam
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