The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
This 19th-century author created "some of the most colorful and haunting fiction of his century" Kirkus Reviews. And with his special blend of comedy, social commentary, and fantasy, he paved the way for Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. @StaticBureaucracy Finally got my new threads today. Took it...
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This 19th-century author created "some of the most colorful and haunting fiction of his century" Kirkus Reviews. And with his special blend of comedy, social commentary, and fantasy, he paved the way for Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. @StaticBureaucracy Finally got my new threads today. Took it to work, I look Superfly. I’m not a gnat on a wall any more, I’m Akaky ‘Big Pimpin’’ Akakyevitch. Seriously, check out pics on my Flickr. This coat is so money, it doesn’t even know how money it is. From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451529541 (0451529545)
Publish date: January 4th 2005
Publisher: Signet Classics
Pages no: 231
Edition language: English
bookshelves: slavic, fraudio, amusing Read in November, 2009 A civil servant's dull existence is transformed when he overhears two dogs talking. With Griff Rhys Jones. From Broadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 8:30am Tuesday 24th November 2009
ChronologyIntroductionFurther ReadingTable of Ranks--Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and his Aunt--How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich--Nevsky Prospekt--The Nose--The Overcoat--Diary of a Madman--The Carriage--The Government InspectorPublishing History and Notes
I never really thought of myself as a 'Russian Literature' kind of guy. But this was another one of those books that my father bought me, during my university years, when he was, I assume, trying to improve me (I have since realised that this was a regular enough occurrence to create a shelf, father...
A civil servant's dull existence is transformed when he overhears two dogs talking. With Griff Rhys Jones. From Broadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 8:30am Tuesday 24th November 2009http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p2hb2/Three_Ivans_Two_Aunts_and_an_Overcoat_The_Diary_of_a_Madman/
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