Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
by Nikolai Gogol | 
The Fierce and Beautiful World
by Andrey Platonov | 
Incidences
by Daniil Kharms | 
The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil
by Nikolai Gogol | 
The Overcoat
by Nikolai Gogol | 
The Blue Lantern
by Victor Pelevin | 
The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
by Anton Chekhov | 
There Are Jews in My House
by Lara Vapnyar | 
A Russian Beauty and Other Stories
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
From the Reminiscences of Private Ivanov and Other Stories
by Vsevolod M. Garshin | 
The Red Passport
by Katherine Shonk | 
Old Peter's Russian Tales
by Arthur Ransome | 
The Carriage
by Nikolai Gogol | 
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
by Haruki Murakami | 
Runaway
by Alice Munro | 
The Thing Around Your Neck
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 
Stone Mattress
by Margaret Atwood | 
Sixty Stories
by Donald Barthelme | 
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
by David Foster Wallace | 
Lone Wolf
by Jodi Picoult |
The theatrical genius of Nikolay Gogol has gone largely unappreciated by English-speaking audiences because pedantically literal translations have left his plays virtually unperformable. These fresh translations restore the vitality of Gogol's language and humor, finally allowing his dramatic art to speak directly to Western readers, directors, actors, and theater-goers. This volume contains The Government Inspector and Marriage - Gogol's greatest full-length plays, comedic cornerstones of the Russian theatrical repertoire - and a one-act satire, The Gamblers. Also included are writings on theater from Gogol's notebooks and correspondences