Short Fiction - Nikolai Gogol (best selling autobiographies TXT) 📗

Rice cooked with honey and raisins. ↩

Curds and flour. ↩

The Cossack country beyond (za) the falls (porozhe) of the Dnieper. ↩

The village or, rather, permanent camp of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. ↩

Cossack villages. In the Setch, a large wooden barrack. ↩

Sometimes written Zaporovian. ↩

Enormous wooden sheds, each inhabited by a troop or kurén. ↩

That is of the Greek Church. The Poles were Catholics. ↩

Lyakhs, an opprobrious name for the Poles. ↩

The Cossack wagons have their axles smeared with tar instead of grease. ↩

The “Viy” is a monstrous creation of popular fancy. It is the name which the inhabitants of Little Russia give to the king of the gnomes, whose eyelashes reach to the ground. The following story is a specimen of such folklore. I have made no alterations, but reproduce it in the same simple form in which I heard it. —⁠Author’s note ↩

Small scourge. ↩

The king of the gnomes. ↩

Short Fiction
was compiled from short stories and novellas published between 1831 and 1842 by
Nikolai Gogol.
They were translated from Russian between 1860 and 1916 by
Claud Field, Isabel F. Hapgood, Vizetelly and Company, and George Tolstoy.

This ebook was produced for
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and is based on a transcriptions produced between 1998 and 2011 by
John Bickers, Meredith Bach, Jana Srna, and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team
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Project Gutenberg (Taras Bulba, and Other Tales, The Mantle, and Other Stories and Cossack Tales)
and
Wikisource (Old-Fashioned Farmers),
and on digital scans available at the
Internet Archive (Taras Bulba, and Other Tales, The Mantle, and Other Stories, St. John’s Eve, and Other Stories and Cossack Tales).

The cover page is adapted from
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks,
a painting completed in 1891 by
Ilya Repin.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by
The League of Moveable Type.

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