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Article: NEW AND NOTEWORTHY.(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2009
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New releases from EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY are centred on collections of stories. The first, in chronological order, is The Collected Tales ([pounds sterling]12.99) of Nikolai Gogol. These have been translated by Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear, who provides an introduction, and were originally published by Pantheon Books in the US in 1998. As Mr Pevear points out, 'nature is always doubled by the supernatural in Gogol's tales, and the ordinary is always open to the assaults of the extraordinary'. In this collection the translators have given readers seven stories grouped under the title, Ukrainian Tales, and the six stories of the Petersburg Tales include 'The Carriage' ...