Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod

by Nikolai Gogol

Book Overview

Hailed universally as Russia's finest comic writer, and by many as its greatest writer of prose, Nikolai creates a unique Ukranian world, from the darkest Gothic to folkloric levity. Here, this extraordinary countryside is revealed in all its variety in his first two collections of short stories. The only translation available of this cycle of stories, this edition captures fully the spirit and vigor of his important early work for the first time...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192828800
• ISBN13: 9780192828804
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.5" x 7.3"