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The Nose
by Gogol, Nikolai
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.
- ISBN 10
- 0879239638
- ISBN 13
- 9780879239633
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: David R. Godine. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1993. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0879239638 . An adaptation of the aburdist classic by Nikolai Gogol, elegantly illustrated by Gennady Spirin. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
Synopsis
NIKOLAI GOGOL was born in 1809 in the Ukrainian Cossack village of Sorochintsy. Seeking literary fame, he went to St. Petersburg at 18 to self-publish an epic poem, which was so ridiculed that he fled the city. He eventually returned and began writing stories influenced by Ukrainian folklore. Collected asEvenings on a Farm Near Dilanka, they were an enormous success. New friends including Pushkin encouraged him, and in stories such as "The Overcoat" and "The Nose," and novels such as Dead Souls , Gogol developed a bitter realism mixed with ironic humor and surprisingly prescient surrealism. In 1836, fearing he'd offended the tsar with his satirical play "The Inspector General," Gogol left Russia for a twelve-year European hiatus. Upon returning he published an essay collection supporting the government he'd always criticized, and was so mercilessly attacked by former admirers that he became despondent. Falling into a state of questionable sanity, he renounced writing as an immoral activity, and in 1852 burned his last manuscript, a sequel to Dead Souls , just days before dying of self-imposed starvation. IAN DREIBLATT has translated Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych and Nikolai Leskov's The Enchanted Wanderer for The Art of the Novella series.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49493
- Title
- The Nose
- Author
- Gogol, Nikolai
- Illustrator
- Gennady Spirin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0879239638
- ISBN 13
- 9780879239633
- Publisher
- David R. Godine
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- 0879239638, Illustrated Classics, Gennady Spirin, Nikolai Gogol, Russian Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
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Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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