The Nose

Informationen zum Autor Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) was born in the Ukraine and left for St Peterburg at the age of 19 where he published a collection of short stories and for a short time held the post of professor of history at the university. Gogol's experience of life in St Petersburg informed his savagely satirical play, The Government Inspector, and a series of brilliant short stories including Nevsky Prospekt and Notes of a Madman. From 1836 to 48, Gogol lived abroad, mainly in Rome, where he was working on his comic epic Dead Souls - a work he wrestled with for the rest of his life before renouncing literature and burning parts of the manuscript shortly before he died. Klappentext 'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me so I could see it was really a nose. .Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Zusammenfassung With this pair of absurd, comic stories, the author indulges his imagination and delights readers.

Product details

• Authors: Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol, Nikolay Gogol, Gogol Nikolay
• Assisted by: Ronald Wilks (Translation), Wilks Ronald (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.02.2015
• EAN: 9780141397528
• ISBN: 978-0-14-139752-8
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 161 mm x 5 mm
• Series: Little Black Classics; Penguin Little Black Classics; Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics; Penguin Little Black Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Russia, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Absurdist, c 1800 to c 1900, Classic fiction, c 1830 to c 1839, Russian tsarist empire, FICTION / World Literature / Russia / 19th Century