The Nose
by Gogol, Nikolai
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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The Nose
by Gogol, Nikolai; Illustrated by Gennadij Spirin
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Boston: David R. Godine, 1993. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Inscribed by illustrator Spirin! First American edition, 1993, hardcover with illustrated glossy paper boards in dust jacket, quarto, unpaginated, illustrated in color. Book fine, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ near fine with small chip to spine head. Item Price
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The Nose
by Gogol, Nikolai
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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 . Item Price
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THE NOSE
by Gogol, Nikolai
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Boston, MA;: David R. Godine, 1993. First U.S. edition (stated) . Hardcover.. Spirin, Gennadij. A surreal world of a nose that disappears one morning from a civil servant and begins parading around St. Petersburg in the guise of a fancy and fashionable officer. A series of misadventures and confrontations will either amuse or horrify the reader. Beautiful illustrations by… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Nose (signed)
by Gogol, Nikolai
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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.
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The Nose
by GOGOL, Nikolai
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2021. GOGOL, Nikolai. The Nose. Illustrated by William Kentridge. Oblong 4to., Publisher's cloth-backed boards and clamshell box. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2021. This edition of The Nose is a new original translation by scholar and author Stanislav Shvabrin. William Kentridge provided 16 altered and collaged images for the book, composed on tear sheets of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Nose
by Gogol, Nikolai Vasil'evich
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Nose
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Boston: David R. Godine Publisher, 1993. First U.S. printing. Light creasing from page handling. DJ has edge/rub wear, a puncture tear/hole near the top of the spine, graze marks/tape residue on the reverse side of the jacket (the previous brodart was taped on) and creasing. Actual book for sale pictured. 22.7 x 31.3 x .9cm, wt600g. First Edition. Hard Cover.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Nose
by Gogol, Nikolai
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Nose, The (The Art of the Novella)
by Nikolai Gogol
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The Nose
by Nikolai Gogol
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The Nose: Bilingual Edition (English - Russian)
by Nikolai Gogol
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The Nose
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The Nose
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The Nose: Four Corners Familiars No. 11
by Nikolai Gogol
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- 2015
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