"Taras Bulba" is a short historical novel by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol from the series "Mirgorod".
The plot of the novel concerns the history of Zaporozhian Cossacks. The main character is Taras Buljba, an old Cossack, who, with his sons Andrija and Ostap, sets out to fight against the Polish nobility and defend Orthodoxy.
Dead Souls (1842) is a brilliant satire that exposes the moral and social rot of imperial Russia through Chichikov's fraud with dead serfs, with Gogol's virtuoso mix of humor, irony and lyricism.
"Crooked House" is the luxurious mansion of the Leonides family, so named for its unusual architecture. Aristide Leonides is found dead, and at first it appears that he died of natural causes. However, it is revealed that he was poisoned with eserine, wh
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Novel • Francuska književnost • A philosophical novel • Existentialism
"The Stranger" (1942) by Albert Camus, a classic work of existentialism, follows the life of Meursault, an emotionally indifferent Algerian of French descent, whose apathetic attitude towards the world leads to tragic consequences.