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The Nose (signed)
by Gogol, Nikolai
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 0879239638
- ISBN 13
- 9780879239633
- Seller
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Cedar Ridge, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: David R. Godine, 1993. 1st ed. Hardcover. As New. Spirin, Gennady. 1st ptg. 4to picture book, illustrated boards to match dj, illustrated by Gennady Spirin in color throughout. The fable of a nose that becomes an army officer. Fine in fine, unclipped dj. Signed on the title page by Spirin. Signed by the artist.
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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- Bookseller
- Bud Plant & Hutchison Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29026
- Title
- The Nose (signed)
- Author
- Gogol, Nikolai
- Illustrator
- Spirin, Gennady
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st ed
- ISBN 10
- 0879239638
- ISBN 13
- 9780879239633
- Publisher
- David R. Godine
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1993
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