The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Volume 2. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Volume 2

Volume 2 of The Complete Tales includes Gogol's Mirgorod stories—among them that masterpiece of grotesque comedy, "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich," the wonderfully satiric "Old World Landowners," and the Cossak epic "Taras Bulba." Here also is "The Nose," Gogol's final effort in the realm of the fantastic, as well as "The Coach," "The Portrait" (in its final version), and the most influential of his Petersburg stories, "The Overcoat."

Constance Garnett (1861-1946) was the first person to translate Anton Chekhov's work into English, and the first to translate most of Fyodor Dostoevsky's work as well. Her translations of those two and other Russian writers, including Tolstoy and Turgenev established the achievements of Russian literature for English-language readers for the first time. She ultimately translated seventy-one works from Russian into English, and most of them remain in print today.