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How the Two Ivans Quarrelled by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: Enter the world of Russian literature with this humorous and satirical tale by Nikolai Vasilievich Go

The last story from the "Mirgorod" cycle, here Gogol presents two landowners deadlocked in an argument over a Turkish rifle, a brown pig, and a goose insult. Wh

"How dared you, in disregard of all decency, call me a goose?" In a sharp-edged translation from John Cournos, an under-appreciated early translator of Russian

The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the mortal insult that drives them apa

Nikolai Gogol's short story is a sublime work of tragi-comedy. In it, he brilliantly ridicules the Ukrainian passion for litigation and reveals life as somethin