Overcoat: and Other Tales of Good and Evil / Edition 1

by Nikolai Gogol

Overview

Four works by great 19th-century Russian author: 'The Nose,' a savage satire of Russia's incompetent bureaucrats and its snobbish and complacent upper classes; 'Old-Fashioned Farmers,' a pleasant depiction of an elderly couple living in rustic seclusion; 'The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich,' one of Gogol's most famous comic stories; and 'The Overcoat,' widely considered a masterpiece of form.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900393003047
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	09/17/1965
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Nikolai Gogol was born on March 20, 1809, in the Ukrainian town of Sorochyntsi, on the periphery of the Russian Empire. He attended the Nizhyn School of Higher Art, now Nizhyn Gogol State University, where he first began writing. On leaving school in 1828, Gogol moved to St. Petersburg to pursue his literary ambitions. His first collection of short stories, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, was published in 1831 to general acclaim. While his early stories were written in the tradition of Ukrainian folklore, his later stories, known as the Petersburg tales, established his reputation as a great surrealist and satirist of life under the Russian Empire. In his later years, Gogol lived abroad throughout Europe, particularly Italy, where he developed a great appreciation for Rome, and wrote the first part of his unfinished masterpiece, Dead Souls. He died in Moscow, Russia, on February 21, 1852.