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'The world is full of absolute nonsense. Sometimes it is really unbelievable." ... The Nose

I read it again today (3/10/01) its greater than ever

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Vintage Classics)

take a lesson from the nose ... if you know what i mean.

More than a century and a half later, Nikolai Gogol's stories continue to delight readers the world over.  From the colorful Ukrainian tales that led some critics to call him "the Russian Dickens" to the Petersburg stories, with their black humor and wonderfully demented attitude toward the powers that be. All of Gogol's most memorable creations are here: the minor official who misplaces his nose, the downtrodden clerk whose life is changed by the acquisition of a splendid new overcoat, the wily madman who becomes convinced that a dog can tell him everything he needs to know.

These fantastic, comic, utterly Russian characters have dazzled generations of readers and had a profound influence on writers such as Dostoevsky and Nabokov.  

the best first

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Vintage Classics) -- Richard Pevear(Translator),

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Classic Radio Performances : Olivier Performs Works by Melville, Wilde, Wells, Harte, Gogol 

Laurence Olivier, Laurence Oliver (Reader) / Audio Cassette / Published 1998

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Vintage Classics) 

Richard Pevear(Translator), et al / Paperback / Published 1999

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Creation of Nikolai Gogol 

Donald Fanger / Paperback / Published 1982

The Creation of Nikolai Gogol

Donald Fanger / Hardcover / Published 1979

Diary of a Madman 

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1994

Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) 

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, et al / Paperback / Published 1991

Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism : A Study of Dostoevsky in Relation to Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory) 

Donald Fanger, Caryl Emerson / Paperback / Published 1998

Essays on Gogol : Logos and the Russian Word (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory) 

Susanne Fusso(Editor), Priscilla Meyer (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1994

Exploring Gogol 

Robert A. Maguire / Paperback / Published 1996

Gogol

Vasilii Vasilevich Gippius, Robert A. Maguire (Translator) / Paperback / Published 1989

Gogol : Plays and Selected Writings (European Drama Classics) 

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, et al / Paperback / Published 1994

Gogol from the Twentieth Century : Eleven Essays 

Robert A. Maguire(Editor) / Paperback / Published 1974

Gogol's Coat 

Cary Fagan, et al / Hardcover / Published 1998

The Government Inspector 

Nikolai Gogol, et al / Paperback / Published 1998

Inspector and 3 Other Plays

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Eric Bentley / Paperback / Published 1987

Inspector General 

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol / Paperback / Published 1991

Nikolai Gogol   -- a must, can you imagine nabokov on gogol?

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov / Paperback / Published 1961

Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil 

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol / Paperback / Published 1965

Overcoat, Nose, Nevsky 

Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol / Paperback / Published 1999

Petersburg Tales : Petersburg Tales : Marriage : The Government Inspector (Oxford World's Classics) 

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, Christopher English (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1999

Russian Literature in the Age of Pushkin and Gogol: Poetry and Drama (Dictionary of Literary Biography, V. 205) 

Christine Rydel(Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1999

Russian Literature in the Age of Pushkin and Gogol: Prose (Dictionary of Literary Biography, V. 198) 

Christine Rydel(Editor), et al / Hardcover / Published 1998

The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol 

Simon Karlinsky / Paperback / Published 1992

 

The World's Best Short Stories : Anthology and Criticism : Short Story Masters Early 19th Century Hoffmann Balzac Merimee Hawthorne Poe Gogol (Worlds) 

Hardcover / Published 1989

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