"This new two-volume edition should do something for increasing Gogol's fame as the most original, imaginative, and exuberant of all Russian writers, as the greatest comedian and humorist among a rather solemn lot."--Rene Wellek, Yale University
Preface About the Translation Table of Nineteenth-Century Russian Civil and Military Ranks Evenings on a Farm in Dikanka, I Preface The Fair at Sorochinstsy St. John's Eve A May Night, or the Drowned Maiden The Lost Letter Evenings on a Farm in Dikanka, II Preface Christmas Eve A Terrible Vengeance Ivan Fiodorovich Shponka and His Aunt A Bewitched Place Arabesques Nevsky Prospekt Diary of a Madman
