Mantle and Other Stories
Author: first_name: Nikolai Vasilievich
last_name: Gogol
Language: English
Year: 1916

Celebrated Ukranian-born author Nikolai Gogol brings us this collection of masterfully grotesque and fantastical stories. These tales are filled with death, madness, ghosts, rampant bureaucracy, the tragedy of human existence, and a mean streak of dark absurdist humor. (Summary by Ben Tucker)