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The Collected Tales

By Nikolai Gogol
Introduction by Richard Pevear
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

By Nikolai Gogol
Introduction by Richard Pevear
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

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Oct 07, 2008 | ISBN 9780307269690

The Collected Tales by Nikolai Gogol
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About The Collected Tales

Collected here are Gogol’s finest tales—stories that combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller—allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostoevsky and Kafka. 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. The wholly unique blend of the mundane and the supernatural that Gogol crafted established his reputation as one of the most daring and inventive writers of his time.

From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov, a brilliant translation of Nikolai Gogol’s short fiction.

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About Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol was born in 1809; his family belonged to a minor gentry of Ukrainian Cossack extraction, and his father was the author of a number of plays based on Ukrainian popular tales. He attended school in Nézhin and gained… More about Nikolai Gogol

Product Details

Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

Hardcover | $26.00
Published by Everyman’s Library
Oct 07, 2008 | 472 Pages | 4-7/8 x 8-1/8 | ISBN 9780307269690

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Praise

“The present translators have contrived to reveal [Gogol’s qualities] to the non-Russian reader at last, and virtually for the first time.” —John Bayley, The New York Review of Books

“A superb translation.” —The New Yorker

Table Of Contents

Introduction
Select Bibliography
Chronology
Translators’ Note

UKRANIAN TALES
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

PETERSBURG TALES
Nevsky Prospect
The Diary of a Madman
The Nose
The Carriage
The Portrait
The Overcoat

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