The collected tales of Nikolai Gogol
By: translated and annotated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
Contributors: Pevear, Richard, 1943-; Volokhonsky, Larissa.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
Subjects: Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852 -- Translations into English.
Description: "Nikolai Gogol's stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a new translation - from an award-winning team of translators - presents these stories in all their inventive, exuberant glory to English-speaking readers. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: St. John's Eve; title: The night before Christmas; title: The terrible vengeance; title: Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and his aunt; title: Old world landowners; title: Viy; title: The story of how Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich; title: Nevsky Prospect; title: The diary of a madman; title: The nose; title: The carriage; title: The portrait; title: The overcoat.