My favorite author - a Russian classic writer Nikolai Gogol. I love to read his stories from the series "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka". They have an amazing sense of humor, funny characters, puzzles and mystery. In the stories of Gogol, for example, "Sorochinskaya Fair," "The Lost Letter," "Christmas Eve", side by side, and true tales, folk beliefs and legends.With people in Gogol acts evil spirits, but it is funny. Hell even act like men, one in a tavern guzzle coat, the other takes care of Solohoj witch, and she hides a bag of his admirers. Good and savvy eventually win evil spirits. Gogol creates a very interesting images of people: fun Cossacks, playful girls and boys who brave, cunning women, that podkoldovyvayut at leisure.Since people are funny stories: pig in "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich" stealing the paper, the crowd braves the fair runs from one swine erysipelas. In bags with nakolyadovannym good people find themselves in the garden grandfather finds an enchanted place, and then he pours it slops own wife.There Gogol and scary stories for reading that takes your breath away. It's "May Night, or drowned," where mermaid avenges evil stepmother, "Basavryuk or evening before Midsummer." Gogol as a warning: the one who wants to take advantage of impure deeds, defeated.But usually Gogol kindly laughs disadvantages people: greed, stupidity, cowardice, gossip: "Utopia smith! And I say, will be hanged. " And over the petty resentment, bureaucracy (in the story of Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich). Gogol is a pleasure to read. His characters speak in such a lively, colorful language, which does not want to, but usmehneshsya.