The Overcoat and Other Short Stories
$17.81
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2000
Summary
Gogol’s Grotesqueries: A Collection of Short Stories
Four outstanding works by a great 19th-century Russian author: “The Nose,” “Old-Fashioned Farmers,” “The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich,” and “The Overcoat.”
Gogol’s stories are admired for their skillful mingling of fantasy and reality, quiet good humor and use of mundane details - as Gogol put it - “to extract the extraordinary from the ordinary.” Imaginative and timeless, they remain as fre…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780486270579 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0486270572 |
| Series: | Dover Thrift Editions |
| Author: | Nikolai Gogol |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Imprint: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2000 |
| Weight: | 90g |
| Dimensions: | 212mm x 133mm x 6mm |
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About The Author
Nikolai Gogol
Peter Constantine was awarded the 1998 PEN Translation Award for “Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann and the 1999 National Translation Award for “The Undiscovered Chekhov: Forty-Three New Stories, and has been widely acclaimed for his recent translation of the complete works of Isaac Babel. His translations of fiction and poetry have also appeared in “The New Yorker, “Harper’s, “Grand Street, “Paris Review, “Fiction, “Harvard Magazine, “Partisan Review, and “London Magazine, among others. He lives in New York City.
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