A Place Bewitched and Other Stories

A Place Bewitched and Other Stories - Paperback

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A Place Bewitched and Other Stories - Paperback

A Place Bewitched and Other Stories - Paperback

by Nikolai Gogol
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by Nikolai Gogol (Author), Natasha Randall (Editor), Constance Garnett (Translator)

An original selection of short fiction by Nikolai Gogol, "the Russian Dickens," translated by the great Constance Garnett and curated by Natasha Randall, that captures the genius of one of the most daring, inventive writers of the nineteenth century.

A wounded solider vanishes into notoriety.
A nose is found in a loaf of bread.
Places--like the Nevesky Prospect--are not what they seem.

Nikolai Gogol was one of the nineteenth century's greatest and most influential Russian writers, a realist whose acerbic observations and taste for the absurd give his writing its strange, comic voice.

In this edition of A Place Bewitched and Other Stories, Natasha Randall presents a new, curated collection of Gogol's short fiction, selected from the work of Constance Garnett, one of Gogol's earliest translators. Randall has lightly revised Garnett's essential translations and frames the collection with a new foreword. Full of the wit of Gogol's work, this edition is the perfect introduction to a great writer and a must for the enthusiast.

Author Biography

Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was a Russian writer and dramatist. He was born in the Ukraine in 1809 and trained as a painter before finding success as a writer. He soon became famous for his plays and short fiction, notably "The Diary of a Madman" (1834), "The Nose" (1836), and "The Overcoat" (1842). His novel, Dead Souls, was published in 1842.

Constance Garnett was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature and one of the first English translators of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov.

Natasha Randall is a translator, writer, and scholar living in London. Her work has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times, among other publications, and she has translated the literary works of Dostoevsky and Lermontov.
Number of Pages: 336
Dimensions: 1 x 7.5 x 5 IN
Publication Date: March 01, 2022
ISBN9780374231477
Author Nikolai Gogol
PublisherPicador USA
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2022
LanguageENG- English
Pages336
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), the son of a gentleman farmer who was the author of Ukrainian folk comedies, was born in the Ukraine and grew up on his mother's family estate. He attended a variety of boarding schools, where he proved an indifferent student and made few friends but was admired for his gifts as a comic actor. In 1828 he moved to St. Petersburg and began to publish stories, and by the mid-1830s he had established himself in the literary world and been warmly praised by Pushkin. In 1836, his play The Inspector-General was attacked as immoral, and Gogol went abroad, where he remained for most of the next twelve years. During this time he wrote two of his best-known stories, "The Nose" and "The Overcoat," and in 1842 he published the first part of his masterpiece Dead Souls. Gogol became ever more religious as the years passed, and in 1847 he fell under the sway of an Orthodox priest on whose advice he burned much of the second part of Dead Souls and soon gave up writing altogether. After undertaking a fast to purify his soul, he died at the age of forty-two.

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