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The Collected Tales by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Classics
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 mos ...Show more
The Collected Tales Of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Category: Classics
When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself "amazed." "Here is real gaiety," he wrote, "honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness. And in places what poetry . . . I still haven't recovered." More than a century and a half later, Nikolai Gogol's ...Show more
The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Classics | Series: Signet Classics
Some call him a Russian Mark Twain. And with his special blend of comedy, social commentary, and fantasy, Nikolai Gogol paved the way for his countrymen Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. This sampling of Gogol's works includes the increasingly fantastic entries of "The Diary of a Madman," followed by the wonderf ...Show more
The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Classics
The corrupt officials of a small Russian town, headed by the Mayor, react with terror to the news that an incognito inspector (the revizor) will soon be arriving in their town to investigate them. The flurry of activity to cover up their considerable misdeeds is interrupted by the report that a suspicio ...Show more
The Government Inspector and Other Works by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Gogol's works constitute one of Russian literature's supreme achievements, yet the nature of their brilliant originality, comic genius, and complex workings is difficult to summarize precisely. The Government Inspector, a perennial favourite on stage and screen, is considered a national institution in R ...Show more
The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Gift | Series: PENGUIN CHRISTMAS CLASSICS
Gogol's classic, uproarious folktale, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift. Written in 1831, this dark tale relates the adventures of Vakula, the blacksmith, in his fight against the devil, who has stolen the moon above the village of Dikanka and is wreaking havoc on i ...Show more
The Nose by Ian (TRN) Nikolai Vasilevich; Dreiblatt Gogol
Category: Classics | Series: The Art of the Novella
The Nose and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Classics | Series: Russian Library
Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol's peculiar genius comes through most powerfully in his short stories. By turns--or at once--funny, terrifying, and profound, t ...Show more
The Overcoat and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Gogol's stories are admired for their skillful mingling of fantasy and reality, quiet good humor and use of mundane details -- as Gogol put it -- "to extract the extraordinary from the ordinary." Imaginative and timeless, they remain as fresh and significant today as they were to readers generations ago ...Show more