The Mantle and Other Stories
by Nikolai Gogol
To explore the Russian creative movement, known as literary realism, through the work of the writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, whom many critics consider not only as one of the leading practitioners of this style, but also as one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century. This elegantly translated collection brings together several short works that are classified as Gogol's finest works.
