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And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon

Essential Stories

Essential Stories

By Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Oliver Ready

By Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Oliver Ready

By Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Oliver Ready

By Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Oliver Ready

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    About And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon

    Fresh, stylish new translations of Gogol’s greatest short stories collected in a beautiful edition

    Admired by writers from Nabokov to Bulgakov to George Saunders, Gogol is considered one of the more enigmatic of the Russian greats. He only wrote one novel, Dead Souls, and destroyed much of his later work, so his stories constitute his major output.

    In this collection, beautifully and skilfully translated by Oliver Ready, Gogol’s three greatest St Petersburg stories – ‘The Nose’, ‘The Overcoat’ and ‘The Diary of a Madman’ – are presented alongside three masterworks set in the Ukrainian and Russian provinces, demonstrating the breadth of Gogol’s work.

    Gogol’s extraordinary work is characterised by his idiosyncratic and often very funny sensibility, and these stories offer us his unique, original and marvellously skewed perspective on the world.

    About And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon

    Fresh, stylish new translations of Gogol’s greatest short stories collected in a beautiful edition

    Admired by writers from Nabokov to Bulgakov to George Saunders, Gogol is considered one of the more enigmatic of the Russian greats. He only wrote one novel, Dead Souls, and destroyed much of his later work, so his stories constitute his major output.

    In this collection, beautifully and skilfully translated by Oliver Ready, Gogol’s three greatest St Petersburg stories – ‘The Nose’, ‘The Overcoat’ and ‘The Diary of a Madman’ – are presented alongside three masterworks set in the Ukrainian and Russian provinces, demonstrating the breadth of Gogol’s work.

    Gogol’s extraordinary work is characterised by his idiosyncratic and often very funny sensibility, and these stories offer us his unique, original and marvellously skewed perspective on the world.

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    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Pushkin Collection
    Jul 14, 2020 | 224 Pages | 4-11/16 x 6-1/2 | ISBN 9781782275152

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Pushkin Collection
    Jul 14, 2020 | 224 Pages | ISBN 9781782275169

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    Praise

    “Gogol’s prose works feature a fiendishly complex narrative structure. In his engaging new versions, Oliver Ready deploys a rich vocabulary. . . . Along the way, there is much to savour.” — Times Literary Supplement

    “I wish I had written the story ‘The Overcoat’. The sensibility of that story is perfect . . . spontaneous and funny and also formally very experimental” – George Saunders

    “One of the most profound, and influential, writers Russia has ever produced, he is also probably the funniest” – Guardian

    “The greatest artist that Russia has yet produced” – Vladimir Nabokov

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