Description:
Selected Stories of Nikolai Gogol includes Gogol's most well-known tales: "The Diary of a Madman," "The Nose," and "The Overcoat," an illuminating afterword by Patrick Maxwell, and a biographical timeline.
Brief description: Patrick Maxwell is an English writer and journalist. He writes on literature for The Big Issue and The London Magazine, and is a regular commentator for TheArticle magazine and Classical Music Daily. He lives near Oxford.
Review Quotes:
"We all come out of Gogol's 'Overcoat.'" -Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Gogol was a strange creature, but genius is always strange." -Vladimir Nabokov