Mirgorod is a collection of short stories written by Nikolai Gogol, composed between 1832-1834 and first published in 1835. It was significantly revised and expanded by Gogol for an 1842 edition of his complete works.

Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since. His strange tales, though often read as forceful demands for social change, were displays of the fantasies of the human spirit. In this ideal marriage of subject and critic, Nabokov analyses his endlessly inventive compa...(展开全部)

Nikolai Gogol was the most idiosyncratic of the great Russian novelists of the 19th century and lived a tragically short life which was as chaotic as the lives of the characters he created. This biography begins with Gogol's death and ends with his birth, an inverted structure typical of both Gogol and Nabokov. The biographer proceeds to establish the relationship between...(展开全部)

Nikolai Gogol was the most idiosyncratic of the great Russian novelists of the 19th century and lived a tragically short life which was as chaotic as the lives of the characters he created. This biography begins with Gogol's death and ends with his birth, an inverted structure typical of both Gogol and Nabokov. The biographer proceeds to establish the relationship between...(展开全部)

Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since. His strange tales, though often read as forceful demands for social change, were displays of the fantasies of the human spirit. In this ideal marriage of subject and critic, Nabokov analyses his endlessly inventive compa...(展开全部)

Collected here are Gogol's finest tales - stories which combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller - allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way of Dostoevsky and Kakfa. All of Gogol's most memorable creations are here: the minor official who misplaces his nose,...(展开全部)

Now in paperback. Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. “Euripides,” the classicist Bernard Knox has written, “was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing s...(展开全部)

代序 坡的一生 在埃德加·爱伦·坡的身边 莫斯肯旋涡沉浮记 白葡萄酒上的随笔 蒙特亚白葡萄酒的诅咒 一桶蒙特亚白葡萄酒 黑猫 身份认同的转折点 威廉·威尔逊 一个陌生的城市：爱伦·坡祝酒人与我 瓶中手稿 一个阴郁的午夜 厄舍府之倒塌 埃德加·爱伦·坡 瓦尔德马先生病例之真相 电影院里的爱伦·坡和我 丽姬娅 泄密的心 第一次 泄密的心 陷坑与钟摆 爱伦·坡、马克·吐温和我 红死病的假面具 尸地禁区 莫格街凶杀案 想象埃德加·爱伦·坡 金甲虫 怒吼和呓语 关于坡的一点随想 乌鸦 G小调上的坡 钟声 我是如何成为埃德加·爱伦·坡迷的 阿·戈·皮姆的故事（节选）

代序 坡的一生 在埃德加·爱伦·坡的身边 莫斯肯旋涡沉浮记 白葡萄酒上的随笔 蒙特亚白葡萄酒的诅咒 一桶蒙特亚白葡萄酒 黑猫 身份认同的转折点 威廉·威尔逊 一个陌生的城市：爱伦·坡祝酒人与我 瓶中手稿 一个阴郁的午夜 厄舍府之倒塌 埃德加·爱伦·坡 瓦尔德马先生病例之真相 电影院里的爱伦·坡和我 丽姬娅 泄密的心 第一次 泄密的心 陷坑与钟摆 爱伦·坡、马克·吐温和我 红死病的假面具 尸地禁区 莫格街凶杀案 想象埃德加·爱伦·坡 金甲虫 怒吼和呓语 关于坡的一点随想 乌鸦 G小调上的坡 钟声 我是如何成为埃德加·爱伦·坡迷的 阿·戈·皮姆的故事（节选）