The collected tales
(Adult Book)

"A Borzoi book"

This translation originally published: New York: Pantheon, 1998

Bibliography: p. xxiii

Collected here are Gogol's finest tales - stories which combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller - allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way of Dostoevsky and Kakfa.

Translated from the Russian