Nikolai Gogol

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles wit...

Collected here are Gogol's finest tales - from the demon-haunted 'St John's Eve' ...

Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant...

'Hey, you with the beard!'A coiffured con man travels across Russia's rural backwater...