The Nose and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol

Author:Nikolai Gogol
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LCO014000, Literary Collections/Russian & Former Soviet Union, FIC019000, Fiction/Literary
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2020-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

Ah! Well, let’s see what about Sophie. Oh, canaillerie!… It’s nothing, it’s nothing… let’s continue.

… my young lady Sophie was in an extraordinary flurry. She was getting ready to go to a ball, and I was overjoyed that in her absence I would be able to write to you. My Sophie is always extremely happy to go to a ball, although she almost always gets angry while dressing. I simply cannot understand, ma chère, what pleasure there is in going to a ball. Sophie comes home from a ball at six o’clock in the morning, and I can almost always guess from her pale and emaciated appearance that they didn’t give the poor girl anything to eat there. I confess I could never live like that. If I were not given some gravy with grouse or some roasted chicken wings, then… I don’t know what would happen to me then. Gravy with porridge is also good. But carrots, or turnips, or artichokes are never any good….

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