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, Niko[...]

Some call him a Russian Mark Twain. And with his special blend of comedy, social commentary, and fantasy, Nikolai Gogol paved the way for his countrymen Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. This sampling of Gogol's works includes the increasingly fantastic entries of "The Diary of a Madman," followed by the won[...]

Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up 'dead souls'. These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain on the record and still attract a tax demand. Chic[...]

Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since. His strange tales, though often read as forceful demands for social change, were displays of the fantasies of the human spirit. In this idea[...]

Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant facade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a [...]

V dvukhtomnoe sobranie sochinenij velikogo russkogo pisatelja Niko­laja Vasilevicha Gogolja voshli proizvedenija, okhvatyvajuschie osnovnye periody tvorchestva avtora. Bolshinstvo iz nikh ? v poslednej pri­zhiznennoj redaktsii sozdatelja «Mertvykh dush», «Shineli», «Revizora». Izdanie posvja[...]

"Shinel", "Nos", "Nevskij prospekt" i drugie "Peterburgskie povesti" velikogo Nikolaja Vasilevicha Gogolja porazhajut svoim stilisticheskim i smyslovym raznoobraziem. Realizm v nikh tesno perepletaetsja s fantastikoj, tragizm - s ozornym jumorom. Eti povesti ne tolko potrjasajut svoej siloj i glubin[...]

Fantasticheskaja povest "Nos" khorosho izvestna rossijskomu chitatelju i ne nuzhdaetsja v spetsialnom predstavlenii. Odnako pered vami izdanie, predstavljajuschee unikalnyj tvorcheskij tandem priznannogo klassika russkoj literatury 19 veka N.V.Gogolja i, pozhaluj, odnogo iz samykh luchshikh khudozhn[...]