The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol - Hardcover

Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich; Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679430237 ISBN 13: 9780679430230

Publisher: Pantheon Books, 1998

Synopsis

In the first new translation of the Russian writer's short fiction in twenty-five years, an award-winning pair of translators presents his satirical and fantastic tales of downtrodden characters who are set upon by the powers that be.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"When, as in his immortal 'The Overcoat,' [Gogol] really let himself go and pottered happily on the brink of his private abyss, he became the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced."
--Vladimir Nabokov

About the Author:

Nikolai Gogol was born in the Ukraine in 1809 and died in 1852. Originally trained as a painter, he became interested in the theater and was soon known for his plays and short stories, notably "The Diary of a Madman" (1834), "The Nose" (1836), and "The Overcoat" (1842). Dead Souls, his novel, was published in 1842.

Richard Pevear, a native of Boston, and Larissa Volokhonsky, a native of Leningrad, are married and live in France. Their translation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize.

Also translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky, (and also available from Vintage Books) are Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol; and Crime and Punishment, Demons, and Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679430237
• ISBN 13: 9780679430230
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 435