Nikolai Gogol Books In Order

Novels

  1. The Government Inspector (1836)
  2. Dead Souls (1842)
  3. Taras Bul’Ba (1842)

Collections

  1. The Mantle (1915)
  2. The Overcoat (1923)
  3. The Diary of a Madman (1961)
  4. The Collected Tales and Plays of Nikolai Gogol (1964)
  5. Gogol Three Plays (1967)
  6. The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil (1972)
  7. The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (1998)
  8. Plays and Petersburg Tales (1999)
  9. A Place Bewitched and Other Stories (2018)
  10. And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon (2019)
  11. The Nose and Other Stories (2020)

Novellas

  1. St. John’s Eve (1830)
  2. The Nose (1836)

Non fiction

  1. Evenings in Little Russia (1903)

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Nikolai Gogol Books Overview

The Government Inspector

This edition of the play seeks to provide the reader with all that is required for a full understanding of Gogol’s classic. Every aspect of the play has been carefully researched, and a detailed account of its composition, reception and stage history is given in the introduction. The text, in the original Russian, is accompanied by a commentary on points of linguistic, literary or historical interest. There are copious notes on colloquial Russian idiom. Misconceptions about the nature and purpose of Gogol’s dramatic masterpiece are common, and this edition attempts to set the record straight, using evidence taken from the writings of Gogol and his contemporaries. The play, innocent of any political intent, emerges not as a light hearted farce, but as a subtle satirical comedy, a brilliant exposition, not just of bribery but of corruption in many guises. Its characters, far from being grotesque, are shown to be ‘real’ people and recognizable types.

Dead Souls

Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. Russia’s first major novel, and perhaps still its most popular, Nikolai Gogol s Dead Souls is a comic epic of greed and gluttony that is admired not only for its colorful cast of characters and devastating satire, but also for its sense of moral fervor. The anti hero of the novel is a man named Chichikov, who hatches a brilliant plan to get rich quick. He will journey through Russia and buy up, at reduced rates, the recently deceased serfs of landowners, who now won t have to pay government taxes on the Dead Souls. With this list of fictitious serfs as collateral, Chichikov can buy an estate and begin amassing his fortune. What follows is a series of grotesquely humorous transactions with Russian landowners, each more queer and repellant than the last. Although Gogol spends much of the novel exposing the evils of the Russian gentry through absurd and hilarious satire, he also expresses a passionate love for his country that resonates with readers even today.A stylistic tour de force, encompassing an astonishing range of voices from delicate, intimate lyricism to robust, bawdy ribaldry, Dead Souls is an intensely felt anatomy of the human condition. Jeffrey Meyers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has published forty three books, including biographies of Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, D. H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, and George Orwell. He also wrote the Introductions and Notes to the Barnes & Noble Classics editions of Edith Wharton s The House of Mirth and Rudyard Kipling s Kim.

Taras Bul’Ba

In Gogol’s historical short novel, Taras Bulba, he takes us on a journey into the world of the ancient Ukrainian Cossacks. Taras Bulba, an old Cossack, sends his two sons Andriy and Ostap to study at the Kiev Academy. After returning, the three men embark on a journey to Zaporizhian Sich in Ukraine to join other Cossacks to go to war against the Polish nobles. Eugene H tz is better known as the singer, lyricist and visionary of the internationally acclaimed Gypsy punk rock band Gogol Bordello. Born in Kiev in 1972, H tz’s road to the United States was a long trek through Poland, Hungary, Austria and Italy, an immigrant experience that informs much of his band’s material. Descendants of Gypsies called the Serva Roma a tribe known for its blacksmiths, pottery makers and musicians, his family relocated to Vermont after the Chernobyl meltdown through a Refugee resetelment program. ‘It’s the last place where I wanted to go,’ H tz says of the Green Mountain State. ‘Once I saw Sonic Youth in 1989 in Kiev, all I wanted to do is be in New York.’ It was in 1998 that H tz finally moved to New York and formed what would become the eight piece lineup of Gogol Bordello. The band’s name pays homage to the author of Taras Bulba Nikolai Gogol whose writings remain to be a large influence on the band’s ethos, particularly, the innovative treatment of tradition and folklore. Since their formation Gogol Bordello has been described as one of the best live bands of our time and been featured in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Q Magazine and Time Magazine to name a few. NPR described their last album as ‘the best rock album of the decade. Period.’ Gogol Bordello have created a new level of musical and lyrical intensity in their continuing cultural crusade to build a bridge between Gypsy music, rock ‘n roll, reggae and other brands of rebel music.

The Overcoat

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol 1809 1852 was a Russian writer of Ukrainian ethnicity and birth. Often called the father of modern Russian realism, he was one of the first Russian authors to criticize his country’s way of life. Although his early works were heavily influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, he wrote in Russian and his works belong to the tradition of Russian literature. Gogol was one of the first masters of short prose, alongside Pushkin, M rim e, Hoffmann, and Hawthorne. The main and most persistent characteristic of Gogol s style is its verbal expressiveness. He wrote with a view not so much to the acoustic effect on the ears of the listener as to the sensuous effect on the vocal apparatus of the reciter. The other main characteristic of his genius is the extraordinary intensity and vividness of impressionist vision, sometimes skirting expressionism. The Dead Souls 1842, The Inspector General and The Overcoat 1842 are among his masterpieces.

The Diary of a Madman

Gogol’s characters are common people and his stories are rooted in commonplace events, but his realism is simply the doorway to a weird world of broad comedy and lunacy. ‘Diary of a Madman’ recounts one man’s struggle to be noticed by the woman he loved. His diary records his gradual slide into insanity, where he finally achieves the greatness that has eluded him in real life. Gogol’s fascination with the demonic and the irrational ultimately contributed to his own death. While he was on an extended fast, his over zealous doctors applied leeches to his face in an attempt to alleviate his condition. But the reports show that the only effect of this treatment was to hasten the untimely and somewhat grotesque demise of this most unorthodox playwright. Produced at the state of the art recording studios of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with sound effects and music. Adapted by Elliott Hayes Performed by Stephen Ouimette Directed by Richard Monette Duration Approximately 1 hour

Gogol Three Plays

This collection contains Gogol’s three completed plays: The Government Inspector, Marriage, and The Gamblers.

The Government Inspector, which satirizes a corrupt society, was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely studied in schools and universities:

‘I resolved to gather into one heap everything that was bad in Russia which I was aware of at that time, all the injustices being perpetrated in those places, and in those circumstances that especially cried out for justice, and tried to hold them all up to ridicule, at one fell swoop.’ Nikolai Gogol

Marriage is a comedy about the business of matchmaking and matrimony; The Gamblers is an excoriating piece about the excesses of the Moscow aristocracy.

‘Two and two make five, if not the square root of five, and it all happens quite naturally in Gogol’s world…
Gogol was a strange creature, but, then, genius is always strange.’ Vladimir Nabokov

The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil

With the publication of ‘The Overcoat’ in 1842, Nicolai Gogol 1809 1852 inaugurated a new chapter in Russian literature, in which the underdog and social misfit is treated not as a figure of fun or an object of charity, but as a human being with as much right to happiness as anybody else. The compassion, simplicity, and gentle humor with which he treats the poignant quest of a hapless civil servant for the return of his stolen overcoat and the fantastic yet realistic manner in which he takes revenge on his nemesis, the Very Important Person mark ‘The Overcoat’ as one of the greatest achievements of Gogol’s genius. The five other ‘Tales of Good and Evil’ in this superb collection demonstrate the broad range of Gogol’s literary palette in his short fiction: the fantastic, supernaturally tinged ‘The Terrible Vengeance,’ the comic portraiture of ‘Ivan Fydorovich Shponka and His Aunt,’ the tragic moral realism of ‘The Portrait’ and ‘Nevsky Avenue,’ and the rampaging satire and absurdism of his send up of Russian upper class stupidity, ‘The Nose.’ The stories offer the reader the perfect introduction to the imaginative genius of Gogol, which was to flower so triumphantly in his masterpiece, Deal Souls.

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself ‘amazed.’ ‘Here is real gaiety,’ he wrote, ‘honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness. And in places what poetry!…
I still haven’t recovered.’More than a century and a half later, Nikolai Gogol’s stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a stunning new translation from an award winning team of translators presents these stories in all their inventive, exuberant glory to English speaking readers. For the first time, the best of Gogol’s short fiction is brought together in a single volume: 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. Now they are brilliantly rendered in the first new translation in twenty five years one that is destined to become the definitive edition of Gogol’s most important stories.

Plays and Petersburg Tales

This volume brings together Gogol’s Petersburg Tales with his two most famous plays, all of which guide us through the streets of St. Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes of the Neva estuary. Something of the deception and violence of the city’s creation seems to lurk beneath its harmonious facade, however, and it confounds its inhabitants with false dreams and absurd visions. This new translation by Christopher English brings out the unique vitality and humor of Russia’s finest comic writer.

Evenings in Little Russia

This is a pre 1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.

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