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Date: 1835-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
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Language: Russian
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Вий?Viy
Title Record # 1300195
Author:
Николай Гоголь?Nikolai Gogol
Date: 1835-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
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Language: Russian
Note: The title reads Viy, which refers to a kind of demon, the King of the Gnomes. It is presented by Gogol as an actual character from Ukrainian folklore, but doesn't seem to have existed outside his imagination.
Synopsis: A young Cossack philosophy student in a seminary falls under the spell of an old witch who uses him as a mount to ride the country roads. He eventually manages to throw her off and wound her, only to discover she is a young and beautiful girl. Some time later the dying creature, in fact the daughter of a local squire, asks for him to be brought to the hall and pray for three nights next to her corpse. The reluctant seminarist is forced to come, and soon undestands the reason of this wish...
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Миргород?Mirgorod |
1967-00-00 |
Николай Гоголь?Nikolai Gogol |
Художественная литература?Khudozhestvennaya literatura |
240 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
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Л. Быков?L. Bykov
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Viy: English and Russian Language Edition | 2014-01-15 | Nikolai Gogol | Sovereign | 978-1-910150-47-4 | $16.99?$: US dollar |
98 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
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Reviews
- Review [English] by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (Pages 145 - 294)