Bernard Guilbert Guerney Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

One of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these “souls” as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the devilish con man Chichikov. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Príbeh Doktora Živaga sa začína roku 1903 a končí sa roku 1929 smrťou hlavného hrdinu na srdcovú porážku v preplnenej moskovskej električke. Dokončenie a epilóg románu dovádzajú udalosti do rokov druhej svetovej vojny. Mozaika výjavov a epizód z prvej vojny, februárovej a októbrovej revolúciu, občianskej vojny, nepokojov a hladu v krajine bohatou vonkajšou scenériou vytvára v konečnom dôsledku obrovskú panorámu života v Rusku. Jej stredobodom sú Jurij Živago a Lara, ich láska.