The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780375706158 : 0375706151 : 01 Jul 1999 : When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself \"amazed.\"  \"Here is real gaiety,\" he wrote, \"honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness. And in places what poetry! . . . I still haven\'t recovered.\" More than a century and a half later, Nikolai Gogol\'s stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a stunning new translation--from an award-winning team of translators--presents these stories in all their inventive, exuberant glory to English...