His influence on Russian literature cannot be understated: Fyodor Dostoevsky is quoted as saying тАЬWe all come out from GogolтАЩs тАШOvercoat,тАЩтАКтАЭ (presented here as тАЬThe MantleтАЭ) and mentioned him by name in Crime and Punishment; Mikhail Bulgakov stated that тАЬno-one can compare with him,тАЭ and Vladimir Nabokov wrote a full biography. Many of the stories in this collection have been adapted for stage and film, including тАЬThe NoseтАЭ as an opera by Dmitri Shostakovich.
Collected here are all of the public domain translations into English of GogolтАЩs short stories, in chronological order of the original Russian publication. They were translated by Claud Field, Isabel F. Hapgood, Vizetelly and Company, and George Tolstoy.
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