Collected Tales Of Nikolai Gogol

Collected here are Gogol''s finest tales - from the demon-haunted ''St John''s Eve'' to the strange surrealism of ''The Nose'', from the heart-rending trials of the copyist in ''The Overcoat'' to those of the delusional clerk in ''The Diary of a Madman'' - allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostoevsky and Kafka. To this superb new translation - the first in twenty-five years and destined to become the definitive edition of Gogol''s short fiction - Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky bring the same clarity and fidelity to the original that they brought to their brilliant translation of Dostoevsky''s works and to War and Peace.