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The Collected Talesby Nikolai Gogol , Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0307269698 (0-307-26969-8)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
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From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov, a brilliant translation of Nikolai Gogols short fiction.
Collected here are Gogols finest talesstories that combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dwellerallowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostoevsky and Kafka. All of Gogols 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. The wholly unique blend of the mundane and the supernatural that Gogol crafted established his reputation as one of the most daring and inventive writers of his time. [via]More editions of The Collected Tales:
The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogolby Nikolai Gogol , Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0226300692 (0-226-30069-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogolby Nikolai Gogol , Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0226300684 (0-226-30068-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol'Book summary:Nikolai Gogol was an artist who, like Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, and Sterne, "knew how to walk upside down in our valley of sorrows so as to make it to a merry place." This two-volume edition at last brings all of Gogol's fiction (except his novel Dead Souls) together in paperback. Volume 1 includes Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, the early Ukrainian folktales that first brought Gogol fame, as well as "Nevsky Prospekt" and "Diary of a Madman."[via]
"It is good to have a complete collection of Gogol's tales in paperback. . . . Professor Kent has thoroughly revised Mrs. Garnett's conscientious and skillful translation, eliminating the Victorianisms of her style, correcting mistakes and pruderies of diction, and making the whole translation sound much more contemporary and alive. But he has avoided the whimsicality and 'curliness' in which some recent translators indulged, and he has not changed or suppressed anything material. He has also supplied helpful notes which are often the first annotation in English, and he has written an introduction which steers the correct middle course between making Gogol an irresponsible artist of the grotesque and proving him a documentary historian of backward Russia."René Wellek, Yale UniversityMore editions of The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol:
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Dead Soulsby Nikolai Gogol , Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0393952924 (0-393-95292-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:Few literary works have been so variously interpreted as Nikolai Gogols enduring comic masterpiece, Dead Souls.
This Norton Critical Edition reprints the text of the acclaimed George Reavey translation, which has been fully annotated for undergraduate readers.
"Backgrounds" contains not only Gogols correspondence relevant to the novel but also the four formal letters that set forth his views on the work.
The editor has also included a useful chronology of Gogols life and an invaluable table of ranks in czarist Russia.
A wide range of criticism includes Robert Maguires general overview of Gogols criticism; two nineteenth-century Russian appraisals; Donald Fangers brilliant essay; and a broad spectrum of twentieth-century Russian critical opinion.
It features, as well, essays by Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson.
The Russian essays have been translated specially for this Norton Critical Edition.
A Selected Bibliography directs readers to resources for further study. [via] -
Dead Soulsby Nikolai Gogol , Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0300060998 (0-300-06099-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:A socially adept newcomer fluidly inserts himself into an unnamed Russian town, conquering first the drinkers, then the dignitaries. All find him amiable, estimable, agreeable. But what exactly is Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov up to?--something that will soon throw the town "into utter perplexity."
After more than a week of entertainment and "passing the time, as they say, very pleasantly," he gets down to business--heading off to call on some landowners. More pleasantries ensue before Chichikov reveals his bizarre plan. He'd like to buy the souls of peasants who have died since the last census. The first landowner looks carefully to see if he's mad, but spots no outward signs. In fact, the scheme is innovative but by no means bonkers. Even though Chichikov will be taxed on the supposed serfs, he will be able to count them as his property and gain the reputation of a gentleman owner. His first victim is happy to give up his souls for free--less tax burden for him. The second, however, knows Chichikov must be up to something, and the third has his servants rough him up. Nonetheless, he prospers.
Dead Souls is a feverish anatomy of Russian society (the book was first published in 1842) and human wiles. Its author tosses off thousands of sublime epigrams--including, "However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man," and is equally adept at yearning satire: "Where is he," Gogol interrupts the action, "who, in the native tongue of our Russian soul, could speak to us this all-powerful word: forward? who, knowing all the forces and qualities, and all the depths of our nature, could, by one magic gesture, point the Russian man towards a lofty life?" Flannery O'Connor, another writer of dark genius, declared Gogol "necessary along with the light." Though he was hardly the first to envision property as theft, his blend of comic, fantastic moralism is sui generis.--Kerry Fried [via]
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Dead Soulsby Nikolai GogolISBN 0393017362 (0-393-01736-2)
Hardcover, Norton & Company Limited, W. W.
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Dead Soulsby Nikolai GogolISBN 0140448071 (0-14-044807-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:[via]Dead Souls is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy. Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these souls as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the devilish con man Chichikov.
- In his introduction, translator and Gogol scholar Robert Maguire discusses the protracted and troubled story of the novel's composition, Gogol's narrative technique, and his place in the Russian and European literary traditions
- Includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading, appendices, glossary, map, and notes
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The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, and Selected Storiesby Nikolai GogolISBN 0140449078 (0-14-044907-8)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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Gogol: 3 Playsby Nikolai GogolISBN 0413733408 (0-413-73340-8)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gogol: 3 Plays'Book summary:This collection contains Gogol's three completed plays[via]
The Government Inspector, which satirises a corrupt society was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely studied in schools and universities: "I resolved to gather into one heap everything that was bad in Russia which I was aware of at that time, all the injustices being perpetrated in those places, and in those circumstances that especially cried out for justice, and tried to hold them all up to ridicule, at one fell swoop." (Nikolai Gogol)
Marriage is a comedy about the business of matchmaking and matrimony; The Gamblers is an exoriating piece about the excesses of the Moscow aristocracy."Two and two make five, if not the square root of five, and it all happens quite naturally in Gogol's world& Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange" (Vladimir Nabokov)
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Gogol Playsby Nikolai GogolISBN 0413730905 (0-413-73090-5)
Softcover, Random House
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The Government Inspectorby Peter Raby, Leonid Ignatieff, Nikolai GogolISBN 0196156866 (0-19-615686-6)
Hardcover, University of Minnesota Press
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The Government Inspectorby Guy R. Williams, Nikolai GogolISBN 0333284909 (0-333-28490-9)
Hardcover, Macmillan Publishers Limited
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The Government Inspectorby Nikolai Gogol , Guy R. Williams, Guy WilliamsISBN 0174323832 (0-17-432383-2)
Softcover, Nelson Thornes Limited
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The Government Inspectorby Nikolai Gogol , Guy R. Williams, Guy WilliamsISBN 0413584704 (0-413-58470-4)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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This is the poet and playwright Adrian Mitchell's version of Gogol's classic satire on human vanity with its story of a penniless nobody from Moscow who is mistaken for a government inspector by the corrupt and self-seeking officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia."The greatest artist that Russia has yet produced" Vladimir Nabokov
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The Government Inspector and Other Russian Playsby Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin, A. Griboyedov, Nikolai Gogol , Joshua CooperISBN 0140448438 (0-14-044843-8)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evilby Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin, A. Griboyedov, Nikolai Gogol , Joshua CooperISBN 0393003043 (0-393-00304-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil'Book summary:With the publication of "The Overcoat" in 1842, Nicolai Gogol (1809-1852) inaugurated a new chapter in Russian literature, in which the underdog and social misfit is treated not as a figure of fun or an object of charity, but as a human being with as much right to happiness as anybody else.The compassion, simplicity, and gentle humor with which he treats the poignant quest of a hapless civil servant for the return of his stolen overcoat-and the fantastic yet realistic manner in which he takes revenge on his nemesis, the Very Important Person-mark "The Overcoat" as one of the greatest achievements of Gogol's genius. The five other "Tales of Good and Evil" in this superb collection demonstrate the broad range of Gogol's literary palette in his short fiction: the fantastic, supernaturally tinged "The Terrible Vengeance," the comic portraiture of "Ivan Fydorovich Shponka and His Aunt," the tragic moral realism of "The Portrait" and "Nevsky Avenue," and the rampaging satire and absurdism of his send-up of Russian upper-class stupidity, "The Nose." The stories offer the reader the perfect introduction to the imaginative genius of Gogol, which was to flower so triumphantly in his masterpiece, Deal Souls. [via]
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The Overcoat and the Noseby Nikolai GogolISBN 0146001141 (0-14-600114-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Petersburg Tales, Marriage, the Government Inspectorby Nikolai GogolISBN 0192828819 (0-19-282881-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Petersburg Tales, Marriage, the Government Inspector'Book summary:This volume brings together Gogol's Petersburg Tales with his two most famous plays, all of which guide us through the streets of St. Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes of the Neva estuary. Something of the deception and violence of the city's creation seems to lurk beneath its harmonious facade, however, and it confounds its inhabitants with false dreams and absurd visions. This new translation by Christopher English brings out the unique vitality and humor of Russia's finest comic writer. [via]
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The Theater of Nikolay Gogolby Nikolai GogolISBN 0226300641 (0-226-30064-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorodby Nikolai Gogol , Christopher English, Richard PeaceISBN 0192837443 (0-19-283744-3)
Softcover, Prentice Hall PTR
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Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorodby Nikolai Gogol , Christopher English, Richard PeaceISBN 0192828800 (0-19-282880-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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