Gogol and Russian Literature on CD ROM

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, 56 books by other great Russian writers, 8 books of Russian history, and Library of Congress "country studies" of Russia and Belarus. 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.

Intended for use with Windows and Linux PCs and recent Macs (OS X), this CD includes the full text of dozens of books in plain text format, organized for easy access, and easily readable using your Web browser or any word processor.

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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 recivved 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.

The works of Gogol on this CD are: Dead Souls, Taras Bulba, The Inspector General, and St. John's Eve Other Russian others included: Dostoeyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Pushkin, Turgenev, Andreyev, Gorky, Kuprin, and Lermontov. Plus the full text of two "Country Studies" -- Russia and Belarus (birthplace of Gogol) , which were originally published as printed books by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress between 1987 and 1995 under a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army. Each country study is presented as a single document, plain text form -- easy to read, to print, and to search (rather than as a collection of over 100 separate documents for each book, that you could find on the Web).

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
  • Cossacks, a Tale of 1852
  • Father Sergius
  • Forged Coupon and Other Stories
  • The Kingdom of God is Within You
  • The Kreutzer Sonata
  • Letter to a Hindu
  • 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
  • The Discovery of Muscovy etc. by Richard Hakluyt
• Country Studies
  • Belarus (research completed June 1995, writing completed Sept. 1995)
  • Russia (research completed July 1996, writing completed March 1997)

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  Text-to-voice conversion software can allow you to hear as well as read these books. So you can test this capability and decide if it might be valuable to you, we include the include the installation file for ReadPlease 2003 on this CD. You can use that file to install a trial copy of ReadPlease Plus, which is a commercial-quality product and can read files of any size. This trial copy is good for 30 days, after which, if you wish, you could buy a license from ReadPlease for $49.95. As an alternative, you can use that same file to install their free version, which doesn't expire, but which can only handle 16K of text at a time; which means that to read a book, you would have to copy and paste one peice of text after another.

  When the rapid, automatic 10 Mbyte installation is done, you will be able to open ReadPlease by clicking on an icon on your desktop. Controls in the right column allow you to change the speed of the voice (with a sliding bar), change the font size (with a sliding bar), and switch among four different voices (with the right and left arrows.

  When you run ReadPlease, you see the text, with yellow highlighting moving from one word to the next, while you hear that same text. And you can at any time edit the text in the video window. Just position your cursor, click you mouse, and tuype whatever you like -- for instance, annotation or marks to show where you last stopped reading. Then save the edited file on your hard drive.

  Please keep in mind that ReadPlease is their software not ours. They are the experts on it. You can listen to samples at their site www.readplease.com, where you can also see detailed help files.

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