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Author, dramatist and satirist, Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) deeply influenced later Russian literature with his powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty beaurocracy and base corruption. This volume includes both his most admired short fiction and his most famous drama. A biting and frequently hilarious political satire, The Government Inspector has been popular since its first performance and was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest Russian play every written. The stories gathered here, meanwhile, range from comic to tragic and describe the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers. They include Diary of a Madman, an amusing but disturbing exploration of insanity; Nevsky Prospect, a depiction of an artist besotted with a prostitute; and The Overcoat, a moving consideration of poverty that powerfully influenced Dostoevsky and later Russian literature.
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Gogol, Nikolay Vasilyevich (1809-52), Russian writer, whose plays, short stories, and novels rank among the great masterpieces of 19th-century Russian realist literature.
Ronald Wilks has translated many Russian works of literature including, for Penguin, those of Gorky, Sologub, Tolstoy, and Pushkin, and most recently, three volumes of Chekhov's stories and his short novel, The Shooting Party.
Robert A Maguire is Professor and Head of Department at Columbia University. He is the author of several books about Russian literature and the prize-winning translator of Petersburg by Andrei Bely (Indiana UP, 1979) and most recently, for Penguin, of Gogol's Dead Souls.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I had only read 'The Overcoat' before and was looking for more of Gogol's short stories. This book had a great selection and the play was also a good addition. Comparing to some other Russian works I have read, the translation here was excellent.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Gogol is a fricking genius. I got this book for my birthday and it has served as my 'introduction' to Gogol, and it is brilliant - magical realism, humour, satire... just incredible. I thoroughly recommend this book.
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For the second time in as many months I have spent good money on a Penguin classic for Kindle and again I am disappointed. Not by the work itself but by the quality of the Kindle edition. The typeface changes size so often that it is both distracting and ugly. And there is no logic to it: the introduction seems to follow some sort of pattern, one section in large print followed by the next in small print, but the works themselves are far less regular with text changing size seemingly from one random paragraph to another.
And there is no table of contents, active or otherwise.
There are so many free or very cheap Kindle editions of classics, some good some really bad, and it is all too easy to presume that Penguin (the brand and the price) is reliably better than any of them. Not true. This is a cheap edition at a regular book price.
And there is no table of contents, active or otherwise.
There are so many free or very cheap Kindle editions of classics, some good some really bad, and it is all too easy to presume that Penguin (the brand and the price) is reliably better than any of them. Not true. This is a cheap edition at a regular book price.
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