St. John’s Eve
The Night Before Christmas
The Terrible Vengeance
Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt
Old World Landowners
Viy
The Story of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan
Nikiforovich
Nevsky Prospect
The Diary of a Madman
The Nose
The Carriage
The Portrait
The Overcoat
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.
“The present translators have contrived to reveal [Gogol’s
qualities] to the non-Russian reader at last, and virtually for the
first time.” —John Bayley, The New York Review of Books
“A superb translation.” —The New Yorker
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