Table of Contents

Introduction
Select Bibliography
Chronology
Translators’ Note

UKRANIAN TALES
St. John’s Eve
The Night Before Christmas
The Terrible Vengeance
Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt
Old World Landowners
Viy
The Story of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich

PETERSBURG TALES
Nevsky Prospect
The Diary of a Madman
The Nose
The Carriage
The Portrait
The Overcoat

Notes

About the Author

Nikolai Gogol was born in 1809. The author of such classic works as Dead Souls, The Government Inspector, and Taras Bulba, he died in 1852.

Together, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Gogol. They live in Paris.

Reviews

“The present translators have contrived to reveal [Gogol’s qualities] to the non-Russian reader at last, and virtually for the first time.” —John Bayley, The New York Review of Books

“A superb translation.” —The New Yorker