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ISBN:	0375706151 (ISBN13: 9780375706158)
Edition Language:	English

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol Paperback | Pages: 435 pages

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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, 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.

These 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.

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Title	:	The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Author	:	Nikolai Gogol
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 435 pages
Published	:	June 29th 1999 by Vintage (first published 1835)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Classics. Literature. Russian Literature

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Gogol's tales in this book are split into two distinct sections. The first is concerned mostly with life in Ukraine in the early 19th century and is filled with superstitious people and the demons and devils they interact with regularly. The stories are tremendously funny but also strange and dark, mysterious in the best, most inexplicable way. I was reminded at times of the short work of Hawthorne, in which dark creatures often seem to be lurking in the woods, but Gogol feels more modern

Split into two sets of stories - those that take place in Ukraine and those in Russia, this is a collection that takes pride of place on my bookshelf. The theme of each story tends to deal with the darker aspects of human nature depravity, poverty, the squandering of talent and opportunity, groupthink and malice. However, the narrative never dips into over-sincerity or narcissistic exposition. There is a sharp, honest, knowing quality to the writing that is evident from the surface level

i read a mess of these in college for one of my (many) Russian lit courses... but not all of them. after running into a Russian speaker on the metro the other day, methinks it's time to revisit the college obsessions. edit: finally finished! this collection of Gogol's works is divided up into two bits: his earlier Ukrainian and later Petersburg tales. the former read more like old folk tales, stories spun tightly around superstition and lore, faith in God and fear of (the) devil-trickster.

Even if he had published nothing but Dead Souls, Gogol would still have a claim to be one of Ukraine's all-time greatest novelists. Luckily for us, he kept writing, and these excellent short stories show that his transition to becoming a more "Russian" writer did not dampen his humor or invention one bit. This collection shows off both sides of Gogol's output: first, the strange, magical Ukrainian stories full of drunken peasants, quarreling landowners, hilarious religious bigotry, and

I'm a Gogol admirer & I've given five stars to other Gogol works & collections, so why four this time?Well, possibly because of the translation. I know I'm in the minority here, but I wasn't captivated by the Pevear/Volokhonsky version. I've read quite a few of these stories before, and I remember liking them much more last time around.I've heard the opinion that their work is more true to the original - does this mean I don't like Russian literature as much as I thought I did? Only time

I was wanting to get back into classics, so I picked up 2 books from the library. This collection and Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." I DESPISED "Pride and Prejudice" and was worried about going into this collection thinking I was just not into classics anymore. However, people say "you can always rely on the Russians for a good book" for a reason. This is the best collection of stories I have read besides Ted Chiang's masterful "Stories of Your Life." This collection ranges from tragic to

Gogols wild and wonderful fantasies expose the phantasmagoria of his imagination-from the lowly civil servant who haunts to streets of St Petersburg in search of his overcoat, to the man who one days wakes up to find his nose has disappeared and is walking the streets disguised as a titular councillor, Gogols tales are by turns whimsical and melancholy, exposing the irrationality and absurdities of life.Some people, shockingly, call Gogol a realist-whilst he may have intermittently dabbled in