Dead Souls on Night Thoughts: “For his part, the Postmaster went in more for philosophy, and diligently perused such works as Young's Night Thoughts, and Eckharthausen's A Key to the Mysteries of Nature; of which latter work he would make copious extracts, though no one had the slightest notion what they referred to.”
Dead Souls on A Key to the Mysteries of Nature: “For his part, the Postmaster went in more for philosophy, and diligently perused such works as Young's Night Thoughts, and Eckharthausen's A Key to the Mysteries of Nature; of which latter work he would make copious extracts, though no one had the slightest notion what they referred to.”
Dead Souls on The Georgics: “None the less, he said, he meant to peg away until every peasant on the estate should, as he walked behind the plough, indulge in a regular course of reading Franklin's Notes on Electricity, Virgil's Georgics, or some work on the chemical properties of soil.”
The Brothers Karamazov on Dead Souls: “he claims (he was arguing about it all the way yesterday) that Gogol wrote _Dead Souls_ about him.”
The Idiot on Dead Souls: “"It was Gogol, in Dead Souls, father," cried Colia, glancing at him in some alarm.”
Black Snow on Dead Souls: “"That's Gogol reading the second part of his Dead Souls to Aristarkh Platonovich." — genuine in-narrative vision/dream sequence.”
Reading Like a Writer on Dead Souls: “a lengthy roll call of eccentrics and oddballs (a man who loses his nose only to see it walking toward him down the street) discussed with reference to Gogol's Dead Souls.”
The House of the Dead on Taras Bulba: “I thought of the Jew Jankel, whom Gogol describes in his Tarass Boulba, and who, when undressed and ready to go to bed with his Jewess in a sort of cupboard, resembled a fowl”