Gogol's Art: a Search for Identity by Laszlo Tikos, in a context of the best of Russian literature

This CD contains Gogol's Art: a Search for Identity by Laszlo Tikos -- the best book ever written about Russia's most enigmatic and intriguing author, together with the full-text of four books by Gogol and 56 books by other great Russian writers, 8 books about Russian history, and the Library of Congress "country study" of Russia.

Nikolay V. Gogol (1809-1852), created a new direction in Russian letters, which was further developed in the 19th century by writers like Dostoyevsky and Rozanov, and in the 20th century by Bely, Bulgakov and Sinyavsky.

In addition, this CD contains the complete text of major works by Gogol (Dead Souls, Taras Bulba, The Inspector General, and St. John's Eve), together with works of Dostoeyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Pushkin, Turgenev, Andreyev, Gorky, Kuprin, and Lermontov.

Intended for use on Windows and Linux PCs and recent Macs (OS X), Gogol's Art is presented in html (Web) format, to allow links from the text to related footnotes. The other books on this CD are in plain text format -- easy to read, to print, and to search.

Laszlo Tikos is professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. A native of Hungary, he studied at the University of Debrecen (Hungary) 1950-54, from where he received an MA in Russian Language and Literature. He was forced to leave Hungary after the 1956 uprising, and escaped to West Germany. He studied at the Universities of Tuebingen and Munich, and received his Ph.D. from Tuebingen in 1961. Since 1962 he and his family have been living in the United States.

Table of contents:

• Gogol's Art: a Search for Identity by Laszlo Tikos
• Gogol
• Dead Souls
• Taras Bulba
• The Inspector General
• St. John's Eve
• Other Russian Literature
• Leonid Andreyev
• The Crushed Flower and Other Stories
• Seven Who Were Hanged
• Anton Chekhov
• Ivanov (play)
• Letters of Anton Chekhov
• The Schoolmistress and Other Stories
• The Seagull (play)
• The Swan Song (play)
• Uncle Vanya (play)
• The Wife and Other Stories
• The Witch and Other Stories
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Crime and Punishment
• The Gambler
• The Grand Inquisitor (excerpt from The Brothers Karamazon), translated by H.P. Blavatsky
• The Idiot
• Notes from the Underground
• Poor Folk
• The Possessed (in html format)
• Ivan Goncharov
• The Precipice
• Maxim Gorky
• Creatures that Once Were Men
• Foma Gordyeff
• Mother
• Through Russia
• Alexandra Kuprin
• Yama (The Pit)
• Mikhail Lermontov
• A Hero of Our Time
• Alexander Ostrovsky
• The Storm
• Boris Pilnyak
• Tales of the Wilderness
• Alexander Pushkin
• The Bakchesarian Fountain and Other Poems, translated by William Lewis
• Boris Godunov (play)
• Marie, a Story of Russian Love
• The Shot (story)
• Feodor Sologub
• The Created Legend, translated by John Cournos
• Leo Tolstoy
• Anna Karenina
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7
• Part 8
• Father Sergius
• Forged Coupon and Other Stories
• The Kingdom of God is Within You
• The Kreutzer Sonata
• Master and Man
• The Moscow Census (from "What to Do")
• An Old Acquaintance (from "The Invaders")
• Science and Art
• Thoughts Evoked by the Moscow Census (from "What to Do")
• War and Peace
• Book 1
• Book 2
• Book 3
• Book 4
• Book 5
• Book 6
• Book 7
• Book 8
• Book 9
• Book 10
• Book 11
• Book 12
• Book 13
• Book 14
• Book 15
• What Men Live By
• Youth
• Ivan Turgenev
• A Desperate Character and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett
• Dream Tales and Prose Poems, translated by Constance Garnett
• A House of Gentlefolk
• The Jew and other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett
• Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories
• Mumu
• On the Eve
• Rudin
• Sportsman's Sketches, translated by Constance Garnett
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Virgin Soil
• Russian History
• The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome
• From October to Brest Litovsky by Leon Trotsky
• Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome
• Russia (1905) by Donald Mackenzie Wallace
• Mutual Aid, a Factor of Evolution by Pyotr Kropotkin
• Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812, Medico-Historical, by Achilles Rose
• The Discovery of Muscovy etc. by Richard Hakluyt
• The Russian Revolution by Alexander Petrunkevitch, Samuel Northrup and Harper Golder



• Russian History
• The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome
• From October to Brest Litovsky by Leon Trotsky
• Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome
• Russia (1905) by Donald Mackenzie Wallace
• Mutual Aid, a Factor of Evolution by Pyotr Kropotkin
• Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812, Medico-Historical, by Achilles Rose
• The Discovery of Muscovy etc. by Richard Hakluyt
• The Russian Revolution by Alexander Petrunkevitch, Samuel Northrup and Harper Golder
• Country Study
• Russia (research completed July 1996, writing completed March 1997)
• table A (html)
• appendix tables (html)
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