Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

Collected here are Gogol's finest tales— from the demon-haunted St John's Eve to the strange surrealism of The Nose, from the heart-rending trials of the copyist in The Overcoat to those of the delusional clerk in The Diary of a Madman—allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostoevsky and Kafka. To...