"The Golden Fund of World Literature" - a collection of electronic books, including the best samples of world literature, is the most comprehensive list of the world's most read books. Each of the works published under the cover of this series is included in one or at the same time several lists of the best books on different versions that are not opposed to each other but harmoniously combined to give the reader the largest choice. The story "The Night Before Christmas" is the most famous work from the series "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka", which came from the pen of the great Russian playwright Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809-1852). Vakula-blacksmith, the protagonist of the story, goes to Petersburg for the tinsels for his beloved Oksana. The fantastic plot of the story harmoniously combines real heroes and fairy-tale characters.

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