{"product_id":"the-collected-tales-of-nikolai-gogol-paperback","title":"The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNikolai Gogol\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRichard Pevear\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eLarissa Volokhonsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMore 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNikolai 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). \u003ci\u003eDead Souls, \u003c\/i\u003e his novel, was published in 1842. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichard Pevear, a native of Boston, and Larissa Volokhonsky, a native of Leningrad, are married and live in France. Their translation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e won the PEN\/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlso 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.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.99 x 8.01 x 5.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 29, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52004498374957,"sku":"9780375706158","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/Z3BaRG1rTndFcVo1VDJXMnVOL2tXZz09.webp?v=1776725388","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-collected-tales-of-nikolai-gogol-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}