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This CD was compiled by Richard Seltzer. With the exception of "Gogol's Art", the books themselves are in the public domain. You can copy them onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original. But the collection and its indexes, created for your convenience, are under copyright. Please contact us first if you are interested in making copies of this CD for commercial purposes. seltzer@samizdat.com
For details about our publishing service, check www.samizdat.com/readme.html
Gogol's Art: a Search for Identity by Laszlo Tikos
- The best book ever written about Russia's most enigmatic and intriguing author. A critical investigation of the work of Nikolay V. Gogol (1809-1852), who created a new direction in Russian letters, which was further developed in the 19th century by writers like Dostoyevsky and Rozanov, and in the 20th century by Bely, Bulgakov and Sinyavsky.
- This book is presented in html (Web) format, to allow links from the text to related footnotes.
Laszlo Tikos is professor
of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA. A native of Hungary, he studied at the University of Debrecen
(Hungary) 1950-54, from where he received an MA in Russian Language and
Literature. He was forced to leave Hungary after the 1956 uprising, and
escaped to West Germany. He studied at the Universities of Tuebingen and
Munich, and received his Ph.D. from Tuebingen in 1961. Since 1962 he and
his family have been living in the United States.
User's Guide: Suggestions
on how to get the most out of your books on CD ROM
"The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world and examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
"The books represent the analysis of the authors and should not be construed as an expression of an official United States Government position, policy, or decision. The authors have sought to adhere to accepted standards of scholarly objectivity. Corrections, additions, and suggestions for changes from readers will be welcomed for use in future hard copy editions (E-mail frds@loc.gov).
"Information contained in the Country Studies On-Line is not copyrighted and thus is available for free and unrestricted use by researchers. As a courtesy, however, appropriate credit should be given to the series."
The online version can be found at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
Click here if you would like to install this software. When you click on that link, you will be asked wheter you want to save it on your computer or just run it. Choose Save -- it will only take about 10 Mbytes; so choose Save. Then select which version you want to install and the directory that you'd like to put it in. When the rapid, automatic installation is done, you will be able to open ReadPlease by clicking on an icon on your desktop.
When running ReadPlease, click on File, then Open, and browse to the texts you are interested on the CD (or any other text file you have). Click on Play and it will start "reading" the book aloud to you. Highlight a chunk of text (of any size) with your browser and then click on Selection, and it will read the text you selected. Controls in the right column allow you to change the speed of the voice (with a sliding bar), change the font size (with a sliding bar), and switch among four different voices (with the right and left arrows).
When you run ReadPlease, you see the text, with yellow highlighting moving from one word to the next, while you hear that same text. And you can at any time edit the text in the video window. Just position your cursor, click you mouse, and type whatever you like -- for instance, annotation or marks to show where you last stopped reading. Then save the edited file on your hard drive.
Please keep in mind that ReadPlease is their software not ours. They
are the experts on it. They have even better versions with even clearer,
more natural voices, which they sell. You can listen to samples at their
Web site www.readplease.com, where
you can also see detailed help files. And you can contact them at:
ReadPlease Corporation, 121 Cherry Ridge Road, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
P7G 1A7. Phone: 807-474-7702
From the index, click on the name of an individual work to see the full text.
Click "Back" in your browser to return here.
For plain text documents, use the "find" function in your browser (under Edit/Find in both Netscape and IE) to find any word or phrase within a document. For Acrobat (.pdf) documents, use the find" function within Acrobat (the binoculars icon).
When you stop reading, jot down the last phrase (a unique set of words) so you can search for that the next time you want to read and easily find the spot where you left off.
If you just want to read and if you have a large screen, use your browser and under View increase the type size to meet your taste.
If you just want to read and you have a small screen, try using WordPad or Word.
If you want to take notes while you read, and if the document is in plain text format, first save the file on your hard drive, then open it in WordPad or Word, enter your notes with the text (making them distinctive with bold or italic or by enclosing them in brackets] as you go along, and save the entire file, with those changes, when you are done. (You cannot edit documents that are in Acrobat, .pdf).
If you use Word, you can Select All [under Edit], and modify the font and type size of plain text documents (to make the letters larger and easier to read) [under Format and Font], and save the files on your hard drive [under File, Save As] with whatever changes you have made (including notes you made while reading).
The books on this CD are in plain text format. You can copy them onto
your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as
backup in case of damage to the original.
ReadPlease has given us permission to include the free version of their
voice conversion software on this CD.
Click here if you would like to use this software. When you click on
that link, you will then be asked if you want to save it on your computer
or just run it. It will be easier for you if you install it on your hard
drive; it will only take about 10 Mbytes; so choose Save. Then select the
directory that you'd like to put it in. When the rapid, automatic installation
is done, you will be able to open ReadPlease by clicking on an icon on
your desktop.
When running ReadPlease, click on File, then Open, and browse to the texts you are interested on the CD (or any other text file you have). Click on Play and it will start "reading" the complete file aloud to you. Highlight a chunk of text (of any size) with your browser and then click on Selection, and it will read the text you selected. Controls in the right column allow you to change the speed of the voice (with a sliding bar), change the font size (with a sliding bar), and switch among four different voices (with the right and left arrows). You can edit the text right in the text window of ReadPlease, adding your notations, and marks you might want to make to indicate where you last stopped reading, and then save that edited book wherever you'd like on your hard drive. You'll find other choices under Options. Enjoy.
Please keep in mind that ReadPlease is their software not ours. They
are the experts on it. They have even better versions with even clearer,
more natural voices, which they sell. You can listen to samples at their
Web site www.readplease.com, where
you can also see detailed help files. And you can contact them at:
ReadPlease Corporation, 121 Cherry Ridge Road, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
P7G 1A7. Phone: 807-474-7702
The easiest way to get started is to click on My Computer, then on your CD drive, then on index.html. (That should bring you to here, in Word or your Web browser, or WordPad or Notepad, depending on your computer's setup.)
From the index, click on an individual work to see the full text in your browser or in Word. Click "Back" in your browser to return here. Use the "find" function in your browser (under Edit/Find in both Netscape and IE) to find any word or phrase within a document.
When you stop reading, jot down the last phrase (a unique set of words) so you can search for that the next time you want to read and easily find the spot where you left off.
If you just want to read and if you have a large screen, use your browser and under View increase the type size to meet your taste.
If you just want to read and you have a small screen, try using WordPad or Word.
If you want to take notes while you read, first save the file on your hard drive, then open it in WordPad or Word, enter your notes with the text (making them distinctive with bold or italic or by enclosing them in brackets] as you go along, and save the entire file, with those changes, when you are done.
If you use Word, you can Select All [under Edit], and modify the font and type size (to make the letters larger and easier to read) [under Format and Font], and save the files on your hard drive [under File, Save As] with whatever changes you have made (including notes you made while reading).
This site is published by B&R Samizdat Express, 33 Gould St., West Roxbury, MA 02132-002. 617-469-2269 seltzer@samizdat.com
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