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That was the case for me when I read the Gogolian story of George Brown, also from South Carolina, who spoke of having had his coat stolen by a ghost with a “thieving habit.”

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2022

Assorted third parties got drawn onto the battlefield, including a Harvard professor Beam describes as “a personage of almost Gogolian gravamen,” Alexander Gerschenkron, to whom even Nabokov didn’t have the audacity to reply.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2016

Rounding out the cast of characters are a Parisian widow named Madame La Franck, a Gogolian nonentity named Quaquelique, and, umm, Joseph Stalin.

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2015

Peter Hoffman, the chef and owner of Savoy, created the special Gogolian menu in collaboration with Ms. Goldstein.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2011

It is this that makes of Dead Souls a unique work, peculiarly Gogolian, peculiarly Russian, and distinct from its author's Spanish and English masters.

From Dead Souls by Hogarth, D. J.