A Place Bewitched and Other Stories

A wounded solider vanishes into notoriety. A nose is found in a loaf of bread.Places - like the Nevesky Prospect - are not what they seem. Nikolai Gogol was one of the nineteenth century`s greatest and most influential Russian writers, a realist whose witty and acerbic observations and his taste for the absurd give his writing its strange, comic voice. Selected from the work of Constance Garnett, one of Gogol`s earliest translators, this edition presents a new, exclusive collection of Gogol`s short fiction, selected and lightly revised by Natasha Randall. Contextualized by Randall`s preface, and full of the wit of Garenett`s work, this edition is the perfect introduction to Gogol, and a must for the enthusiast.