num_pages: 400
description: This volume brings together Gogol's Petersburg Tales with his two most famous plays, all of which guide us through the streets of St. Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes of the Neva estuary. Something of the deception and violence of the city's creation seems tolurk beneath its harmonious facade, however, and it confounds its inhabitants with false dreams and absurd visions. This new translation by Christopher English brings out the unique vitality and humor of Russia's finest comic writer.
language: English
title: Plays and Petersburg Tales
titlecomplete: Plays and Petersburg Tales
genres: Short Stories, Russia, Literary Fiction, Drama, Plays, Literature, Russian Literature, Classics, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 532
publisher: Oxford University Press