![]() ![]() ![]() Item #4745 First Impression (and first in English). cf.Line, p.19 (Bibliography of Russian Literature in English Translation to 1945). Scarce in dustjacket, with no copies found in the auction record. John's Eve, and other stories from "Evenings at the farm" and "St. Garnett's English translation is significant, still in print today, preceded by Isabel Hapgood's translation (as "The Cloak") in St. ![]() Contents include "The Nevsky Prospect," "A Madman's Diary," "The Prisoner," "The Carriage," "The Nose," "The Portrait," and "The Overcoat," a tragic story which Vladimir Nabokov called "the greatest Russian short story ever written." (The Art of Translation, 1941). First English language edition of Constance Garnett's translation of The Overcoat, issued as Volume III of her five-volume Works of Nikolay Gogol, published between 1923-28. Gogol, Nikolay (stories) Garnett, Constance (translation) THE OVERCOAT AND OTHER STORIES ![]()
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