Gogol was a Ukrainian writer from the early 19th century. Taras Bulba is the story of the life of the Ukrainian Cossacks who lived during the 16th century. Taras Bulba…

Although largely composed by Gogol during self-imposed exile in Italy in the late 1830s, this work remains perhaps the most essentially Russian of novels. The reader follows Chichikov, a dismissed…

A small-town policeman scrambles to conceal bribery and other misdeeds from a visiting official in Gogol’s masterpiece of dramatic satire. Biting, highly entertaining treatment of universal human foibles and failings.

Collected here are Gogol’s finest tales - stories which combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller - allowing readers to…

The Overcoat which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol’s memorable Saint Petersburg stories, is a tale of the absurd and misplaced obsessions.

In this original compilation from Skyboat Media and Blackstone Publishing, Nikolai Gogol’s stories range from the whimsical and bizarre to the incisive and satiric, from the horrific and terrifying to…

The Constance Garnett translation has been revised throughout by the editor.