The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil (Hardcover)

from anitag99

This collection is uneven -- with some stories being nearly unreadable ("The Terrible Vengeance" eg) and others are interesting -- but in a 19th-century Russian historical context.If I were to reco...

from williamcostiganjr

Gogol's great with words and quite funny. But the supernatural aspect of nearly all these stories put me off a bit. Still, I found the majority of these stories satisfying. Recommended.

from datrappert

Gogol is a marvelous writer and these are marvelous stories. The only downside is a pervasive anti-Semitism, which seems par for the course for much of Russian literature of that period. In this ca...

from datrappert

Gogol is a marvelous writer and these are marvelous stories. The only downside is a pervasive anti-Semitism, which seems par for the course for much of Russian literature of that period. In this ca...