Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol glassware and Ossiri and Kassoum navigate

and Ossiri and Kassoum navigate a Paris on the brink of momentous change

Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom

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Many of us respond to the pressures of life by turning inward and ignoring problems

Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol glassware and Ossiri and Kassoum navigateGogol's tale of a dismissed civil servant turned unscrupulous confidence man is the most essentially Russian of all the great novels in Russian literature. With its rich and ebullient language, ironic twists, and cast of comedic characters, Dead Souls (1842) stands as one of the most dazzling and poetic masterpieces of the nineteenth century. This brilliant new translation by Christopher English is complemented by a superb introductory essay by the