Автор: Gogol
Gogol`s stories are admired for their skillful mingling of fantasy and reality, quiet good humor and use of mundane details — as Gogol put it — `to extract the extraordinary from the ordinary.` Imaginative and timeless, they remain as fresh and significant today as they were to readers generations ago. This rich selection of four short stories by the great 19th-century Russian author of Dead Souls includes `The Nose,` a savage satire of incompetent bureaucrats and the snobbery and complacency…