9780375706158-0375706151-The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

ISBN-13: 9780375706158
ISBN-10: 0375706151
Edition: Reprint
Author: Nikolai Vasilevich
Publication date: 1999
Publisher: Random House
Format: Paperback 464 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780375706158
ISBN-10: 0375706151
Edition: Reprint
Author: Nikolai Vasilevich
Publication date: 1999
Publisher: Random House
Format: Paperback 464 pages

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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (ISBN-13: 9780375706158 and ISBN-10: 0375706151), written by authors Nikolai Vasilevich, was published by Random House in 1999. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.11.

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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 stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a stunning 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.

These fantastic, comic, utterly Russian characters have dazzled generations of readers and had a profound influence on writers such as Dostoevsky and Nabokov. Now they are brilliantly rendered in the first new translation in twenty-five years--one that is destined to become the definitive edition of Gogol's most important stories.

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