The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

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.

В настоящем издании представлены знаменитейшие произведения Гоголя - от "Вечеров на хуторе близ Диканьки", о которых А. С. Пушкин писал: "...все обрадовались етому живому описанию племени, поющего и пляшущего, етим свежим картинам малороссийской природы, етой веселости, простодушной и вместе лукавой", до "Мертвых душ" - набора "раздувшихся мертвых душ... описанных с чисто гоголевским смаком и богатством жутковатых подробностей, которые поднимают ето произведение до уровня гигантской епической поемы..." (В. В. Набоков)

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