This early work by Nikolai Gogol was originally published in the 19th century and
we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ‘The Mantle
and Other Stories’ is a collection of short stories that include ‘The Viy’, ‘The Nose’,
‘A May Night’, ‘The Mantle’, and ‘Memoirs of a Madman’.
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born in Sorochintsi, Ukraine in 1809 In 1831, Gogol
brought out the first volume of his Ukrainian stories, ‘Evenings on a Farm Near
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