Description
More than a century and a half later, Nikolai Gogol's stories continue to delight readers the world over. For the first time, the best of Gogol's short fiction is brought together in a single volume: from the colorful Ukrainian tales that led some critics to call him "the Russian Dickens" to the Petersburg stories, with their black humor and wonderfully demented attitude toward the powers that be.
All of Gogol's most memorable creations are here: the minor official who misplaces his nose, the downtrodden clerk whose life is changed by the acquisition of a splendid new overcoat, the wily madman who becomes convinced that a dog can tell him everything he needs to know.
These fantastic, comic, utterly Russian characters have dazzled generations of readers and had a profound influence on writers such as Dostoevsky and Nabokov.
Contains:
- St. John's Eve
- The Night Before Christmas
- The Terrible Vengeance
- Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt
- Old World Landowners
- Viy
- The Story of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich
- Nevsky Prospect
- The Diary of a Madman
- The Nose
- The Carriage
- The Portrait
- The Overcoat
Endorsements
"Amazed. Here is real gaiety, honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness. And in places what poetry! . . . I still haven't recovered." — Pushkin
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