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A story by this author ends after a hungover man who promised to host a dinner party is found by his angry guests hiding in the title vehicle. In a story by this author, a man becomes a monk to purify his soul after painting a religious scene in which every figure had demonic eyes. In that story by this author, a painter abandons his style and paints for aristocrats after a bag of money is found in the frame of a cursed portrait (-5[1])of a moneylender. Near the end of a story by this author, a cobbler named (*) Hoffmann helps beat up an officer for dancing with the wife (10[1])of a tinsmith named Schiller. This author of the collection Arabesques wrote a story in which a painter who takes opium to dream of a dark-haired (10[1])prostitute is contrasted with Lieutenant Pirogov, who followed a blonde woman down the title street. For 10 points, name this author who included the story “Nevsky Prospect” in his Petersburg Tales. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Nikolai Gogol [or Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol] (The first story is “The Carriage.” The story in the second and third sentences is “The Portrait.”)
<Literature - European Literature - Short Fiction>
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Frances HadleyLimp FrancekitDefying Suavity16710

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