The nose

by Nikolai Gogol

Overview

After disappearing from the Deputy Inspector's face, his nose shows up around town before returning to its proper place.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162256434
Publisher:	UnderPress Books
Publication date:	04/13/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	935 KB

About the Author

Gogol was born in the Ukrainian Cossack village of Sorochyntsi, in Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire, present-day Ukraine. His mother was a descendant of Polish nobility. His father Vasily Gogol-Yanovsky, a descendant of Ukrainian Cossacks, belonged to the petty gentry, wrote poetry in Russian and Ukrainian, and was an amateur Ukrainian-language playwright who died when Gogol was 15 years old.

In 1820 Gogol went to a school of higher art in Nizhyn and remained there until 1828. It was there that he began writing. Very early he developed a dark and secretive disposition, marked by a painful self-consciousness and boundless ambition. Equally early he developed an extraordinary talent for mimicry which later on made him a matchless reader of his own works.