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Selected Stories of Nikolai Gogol: Ukrainian and St. Petersburg Tales
As enigmatic as he was influential, Nikolai Gogol is commonly referred to as the father Russian realism. Selected Stories of Nikolai Gogol draws from stories set in Ukraine and St. Petersburg. Included are "The Fair at Sorochintsï," first published in Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, the short story collection that launched Gogol's career and made him famous overnight; "The Viy," a horror novella; "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich," one of Gogol's most humorous stories; and his most well-known tales: "The Diary of a Madman," "The Nose," and "The Overcoat," which Nabokov called "the greatest Russian short story ever written." This unique Warbler Press edition includes an illuminating afterword by Patrick Maxwell and a biographical timeline.
Book Details
- Publisher: Warbler Press
- Publish Date: Apr 20th, 2022
- Pages: 184
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.42in - 0.53lb
- EAN: 9781957240404
- Categories: • Classics• Short Stories (single author)• World Literature - Russia - 19th Century
About the Author
Maxwell, Patrick: - Patrick Maxwell is an English writer and journalist. He writes on literature for The Big Issue and The London Magazine, and is a regular commentator for TheArticle magazine and Classical Music Daily. He lives near Oxford.
Gogol, Nikolai: - Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) Ukrainian-born humorist, dramatist, and novelist whose works, written in Russian, significantly influenced the direction of Russian literature. His novel Dead Souls and his short story "The Overcoat" are considered the foundations of the great nineteenth-century tradition of Russian realism.
Praise for this book
"We all come out of Gogol's 'Overcoat.'" -Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Gogol was a strange creature, but genius is always strange." -Vladimir Nabokov