gogol?, nikola? vasil?evich

"In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times"--Provided by publisher.

"With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides-Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, among others-Sara Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news, traveling from rinsed northwestern beet fields and the Far Eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of nationalities, religions, and languages in the Caucasus. Bypassing major cities as much as possible, she goes instead to the places associated with the country's literary masters"--Jacket flap.

Reprints five short stories by nineteenth-century Ukrainian author Nikolai Gogol, including the title work in which a government clerk chronicles in his diary his growing love for his superior's daughter, as well as his slip into insanity.

Presents four short fiction stories by nineteenth-century Russian author Nikolai Gogol, including the title work about a poor, and much-ridiculed St. Petersburg official.

Reprints five short stories by nineteenth-century Ukrainian author Nikolai Gogol, including the title work in which a government clerk chronicles in his diary his growing love for his superior's daughter, as well as his slip into insanity.

Contains new English translations of the Russian texts of thirteen stories by early nineteenth-century Ukrainian author Nikolai Gogol, presented in the order of their composition.

Reprints five short stories by nineteenth-century Ukrainian author Nikolai Gogol, including the title work in which a government clerk chronicles in his diary his growing love for his superior's daughter, as well as his slip into insanity.

A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.