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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;Opening a door to a bizarre world of broad comedy, fantasy, and social commentary, the title story offers an unforgettable depiction of a lunatic civil servant and his struggles to be noticed by the woman he loves. This excellent introduction to Gogol also features &quot;Nevski Prospect&quot; and &quot;The Portrait.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Feb 22 16:59:10 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[اگر داستان کوتاه دوست دارید، اگر ادبیات روسیه را دوست دارید، اگر چخوف دوست دارید و هزار تا اگر دیگر:<br/>یادداشت‌های یک دیوانه را از دست ندهید.<br/>راستش مطمئن نیستم که ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75871">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3004512">
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 12 17:42:05 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 12 19:35:38 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book forever changed my view of little dogs. ]]></body>
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    <review id="70272791">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 06 13:55:48 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 08 08:06:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Surprising and refreshing given my experience with other Russian writers.  Gogol's stories are contrastingly light and comic, and his intrusive narration sometimes hilarious.  His close to &quot;The Nose,&quot; a completely absurd tale about a man losing and then finding his nose (which in the meant...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70272791">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73194183">
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 02 07:28:00 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 02 07:28:30 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[تاکنون هیچ کس نفهمیده است زن‏ها عاشق چه‏کسی هستند. من اولین کسی هستم که این معما را حل می‏کنم: عاشق شیطان‏اند. شوخی نمی‏کنم. با این‏که دکتر ها مدام چرند می‏بافند ک...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73194183">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30879005">
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 26 06:38:05 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lot of people think that Gogol is a master of mixing the everyday with the absurd - a subtle kink of the credible incredible. These people are the ones that are mad. What Gogol knows is that the reality of the everyday <em>is</em> absurd. <br/>I would write more, but I am expecting a delegation from Spain...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30879005">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61362940">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 28 00:45:27 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 15 07:48:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[نتیجه ی خوندن این کتاب برا من یکی که زیادی روشنه: پسر این یه &quot;messiah handbook&quot; e داستان نویسی یه، یه کتاب مقدس نوشتنه، اونم نوشتنه یکی از کشور من، تو همچین دوره یی، با زبا...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61362940">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61361650">
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Solid group of short stories.<br/><br/>&quot;Diary of a Madman&quot;- Not my favorite of the three stories, but definitely a fascinating read. Although, the characterization of the clerk didn't help me feel much for him. The clerk's diary turned out to be fairly dry.<br/><br/>&quot;The Nevski Pr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61361650">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4432677">
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 12 10:42:29 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gogol's two most well-known stories, &quot;The Nose&quot; and &quot;The Overcoat,&quot; might be my two most favorite stories by any author.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="22119898">
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    <body><![CDATA[گوگول زندگي و آثارش با روشنفكران روسي تفاوتي فراوان دارد.<br/>فرورفتن جريان روشنفكري در پرسشهاي فلسفي درباره چيستي و چگونگي جهان و تبيين دنيا كه به نحو كاملا بارزي از ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22119898">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8222156">
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  <date_updated>Mon Feb 25 08:00:10 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[ نيکلای گوگول نويسنده نو گرا و صاحب سبكي است او با به تصوير كشيدن زندگي مردم روسيه از همه طبقات جامعه با زباني  طنزآميز و گاه غم آلود اما شيرين ، راهي را آغاز كرد كه نوي...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8222156">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24967340">
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd never read any Gogol. None of the &quot;classic&quot; short stories. To be honest, I was a bit disappointed in the short stories. Sure, they depicted the absurdities of Russian bureaucracy, the  rituals of their pseudo-caste system, but I found myself wanting more depth. The veneer was great, bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24967340">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16174717">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gogols absurdist tendency runs rampent in this collection of short stories, from The Diary, which has a man talking to dogs and obsessing over letters the dogs wrote to each other. To the good old... ghost story?, &quot;The Overcoat&quot;. I feel though that the story of &quot;Taras Bulba&quot; is a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16174717">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10263733">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 11 08:04:09 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Nose&quot; blows and so does Gogol.  I really don't think he is funny like a lot of people do.  I read this during my &quot;Tsarist&quot; phase back in 98-99 and was reminded of it last week when I couldn't find my winter coat.  Of course, it was 80 yesterday - WTF?  Anyway, I lived with a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10263733">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74882315">
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    <body><![CDATA[A complete delight to read. I thoroughly enjoyed the dark humour, the bumbling Russian departments, the surreal circumstances, and the portrait of the poor in this short story collection. I would have to say my favorite story is &quot;Diary of a Madman.&quot; I will be recommending this to my friend...]]></body>
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    <review id="77492267">
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;the overcoat&quot;, which i loved the most,in its plot line is simple and reminded me &quot;notes from underground&quot;, that I read before.<br/>anyway, I don't know the reason why but before reading another russian author, I have to take a breath.]]></body>
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    <review id="38994734">
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    <body><![CDATA[Diary of a madman is funny. Funny in a trite way, but yet I laughed at it. The plot is related to us through the eyes of a lunatic. And it gives this piece its brilliance.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Overcoat and The Nose are two of my very, very favorite stories ever.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[این قصه  یک بار در 1329 همراه با شنل و دماغ، توسط مصطفی فرزانه ترجمه م منتشر شده است و بار دیگر، تا آنجا که من اطلاع دارم، در مجموعه ای به همین نام، همراه شش قصه ی دیگر از ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7925520">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Overcoat&quot; was superb, quite equal to the short stories of Anton Chekhov, but &quot;The Nose&quot; and &quot;The Carriage&quot; felt unfinished rather than intriguing, and &quot;Taras Bulba&quot; most assuredly not succeed in its obvious aims. I am left with a patchy, uneven impression...]]></body>
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