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Nikolai Gogol's hilarious and macabre tale of a Christmas Eve with a devil and a romantic twist....
Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls" is the great comic masterpiece of Russian literature-a satirical and splendidly exaggerated epic of life in the benighted...
Few literary works have been so variously interpreted as Nikolai Gogol's enduring comic masterpiece, Dead Souls....
Satiric masterpiece skewers Russian provincial officials, offering a highly entertaining glimpse of human foibles and failings....
A young man in a white coat uses the tales of the devil that haunts Sorochintzy Fair to good advantage in order to win the maiden of his choice....
An NYRB Classics Original The first of the great Russian novels and one of the indisputable masterpieces of world literature, Dead Souls is the tale o...
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 o...
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Nikolai Gogol's classic and hilarious satire of bureaucratic ineptness and corruption in a first-class translation by Laurence Senelick. "The emperor ...
A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who ha...
The corrupt officials of a small Russian town, headed by the Mayor, react with terror to the news that an incognito inspector (the revizor) will soon ...
A story of a clerk whose new overcoat changes his destiny....
A new, annotated translation of Gogol's classic short fiction, destined to become the definitive edition...
This story takes place in a bucolic small town of Mirgorod (Myrhorod in Ukrainian), written in the style featuring grotesque, realistic portrayals of ...
Gogol's epic tale, in the first new English translation in 40 years, recounts a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles, led by the bold Taras Bulba o...
Often quoted as Russian literature's greatest comedy, The Government Inspector is a trenchant satire of the corruption, greed and stupidity of petty o...
This 19th-century author created some of the most colorful and haunting fiction of his century (Kirkus Reviews). This sampling by the comic genius inc...
Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov awakens to discover that his nose is missing, leaving a smooth, flat patch of skin in its place. He finds and confronts h...
A Poem
Plays and Selected Writings
Translated by Christopher English
A Tale of the Cossacks
"How dared you, in disregard of all decency, call me a goose?" In a sharp-edged translation from John Cournos, an under-appreciated early translator o...
A Russian Farce-comedy
Including The Old-world Landowners, Taras Bulba, Viy, Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich
"In the autumn of 1831, some easter from the Poltava province issued a book under the tantalizing title "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka". The simple-...
Four short stories include a satirical tale of Russian bureaucrats and a portrayal of an elderly couple living in the secluded countryside....
A Story of the Dnieper Cossacks
A Russian Comedy
A Comedy in Five Acts
A new series translating the major works of Russian drama....