Selected Tales

In a new translation by Michael R. Katz (acclaimed translator of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment), exclusively available through the Norton Library, Selected Tales presents a collection of Nikolai Gogol’s most regarded short fiction: Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Auntie,
Nevsky Prospect,
Notes of a Madman,
The Nose,
The Carriage,
The Portrait, and The Overcoat. A thorough introduction by Kate Holland (University of Toronto) situates the stories in the historical and literary contexts of imperial St. Petersburg, inviting a new generation of readers to appreciate Gogol’s transformative vision and incisive social criticism.