Works by
Nikolai Gogol
(aka Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol)
(Playwright, Writer)
[1809 - 1852]

Writings

• Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (Vechera Na Khutore Bliz Dikan'ki) (1826)
  See also Evenings Near the Village of Dikanka,  Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod

• Mirgorod (1835)

• Arabeski (1835)
  See also Frames of the Imagination by Melissa Frazier

• Zapiski Sumassedshego (1835)
  See Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

• St. Petersburg Stories (Nevski Prospekt) (1835)
  See Stories From St. Petersburg

• The Coach (Koliaska) (1836)

• The Overcoat  (Shinel) (1842)
  See The Overcoat and Other Short Stories
  Movie (1926), Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, Directors
  Movie (1959), Aleksei Batalov, Director  VHSt

• Sochinenii (1842)
  4 Volumes

• The Portrait (Portret) (1842)
  See The Overcoat, the Nose Nevsky Prospect, Carriage, the Portrait, Diary of a Madman, Rome

• Rome (Rin) (1842)
  See The Overcoat, the Nose Nevsky Prospect, Carriage, the Portrait, Diary of a Madman, Rome

• The Marriage (Zhenitba) (1842)
  See THE Gamblers and Marriage and Plays and Petersburg Tales

• The Gamblers (Igrogi) (1843)
  See THE Gamblers and Marriage

• Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends (Vybrannyye Mesta Iz Perepiski S Druzyami) (1847)

• The Divine Liturgia Of The Eastrn Orthodox Church (Razmyshleniia O Bozhestvennoi Lityrgii) (1913) -
  See Meditations on the Divine Liturgy

• Collected Works, 1922-27
  6 Volumes
  See, for instance, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

• Chichikov's Journeys: Or, Home Life in Old Russia (1944)

• Stories From St. Petersburg: Diary of a Madman/Nevski Prospect (1945)

• The Collected Tales & Plays of Nikolai Gogol (1964)

• Letters of Nikolai Gogol (1967)

• Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends (1969)

• Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (1972)
  Gogol's characters are common people and his stories are rooted in commonplace events, but his realism is simply the doorway to a weird world of broad comedy and lunacy. "Diary of a Madman" recounts one man's struggle to be noticed by the woman he loved. His diary records his gradual slide into insanity, where he finally achieves the greatness that has eluded him in real life. Gogol's fascination with the demonic and the irrational ultimately contributed to his own death. While he was on an extended fast, his over-zealous doctors applied leeches to his face in an attempt to alleviate his condition. But the reports show that the only effect of this treatment was to hasten the untimely and somewhat grotesque demise of this most unorthodox playwright.

• Avtorskaia Ispoved (1974) - An Author's Confession

• Sobranie Sochinenii, 1984-86
  8 Volumes

• The Complete Tales of Nilolai Gogol -- Volume 1 (1985)

• Hanz Kuechelgarten, Leaving the Theater & Other Works  (1990)

• The Overcoat and Other Short Stories (1992)
  Four works by great 19th-century Russian author: "The Nose," a savage satire of Russia's incompetent bureaucrats; "Old-Fashioned Farmers," a pleasant depiction of an elderly couple living in rustic seclusion; "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich," one of Gogol’s most famous comic stories; and "The Overcoat," widely considered a masterpiece of form.

• Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod (1994)
  Hailed universally as Russia's finest comic writer, and by many as its greatest writer of prose, Nikolai creates a unique Ukranian world, from the darkest Gothic to folkloric levity. Here, this extraordinary countryside is revealed in all its variety in his first two collections of short
  stories. The only translation available of this cycle of stories, this edition captures fully the spirit and vigor of his important early work for the first time.

• Nikolai Gogol Plays And Petersburg Tales (1996)
  In these tales Gogol guides us through the elegant streets of St Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes of the Neva estuary. Something of the deception and violence of the city's creation seems to lurk beneath its harmonious facade, however, and it confounds its inhabitants with false dreams and absurd visions - `nothing is what it seems!' warns Gogol. St Petersburg is also the setting for Marriage, Gogol's satire on courtship and cowardice. Finally, for The Government Inspector, indisputably Russia's greatest comedy, we move to the provinces although even here St Petersburg's preoccupation with status and appearances makes its presence felt.

• The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (1998)
  When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself "amazed." "Here is real gaiety," he wrote, "honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness. And in places what poetry! . . . I still haven't recovered."
  
  More than a century and a half later, Nikolai Gogol's stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a stunning new translation--from an award-winning team of translators--presents these stories in all their inventive, exuberant glory to English-speaking readers. For the first time, the best of Gogol's short fiction is brought together in a single volume: from the colorful Ukrainian tales that led some critics to call him "the Russian Dickens" to the Petersburg stories, with their black humor and wonderfully demented attitude toward the powers that be. All of Gogol's most memorable creations are here: the minor official who misplaces his nose, the downtrodden clerk whose life is changed by the acquisition of a splendid new overcoat, the wily madman who becomes convinced that a dog can tell him everything he needs to know.
  
  These fantastic, comic, utterly Russian characters have dazzled generations of readers and had a profound influence on writers such as Dostoevsky and Nabokov. Now they are brilliantly rendered in the first new translation in twenty-five years--one that is destined to become the definitive edition of Gogol's most important stories.

• Gogol (2000), Stephen Mulrine, Translator
  This collection contains Gogol's three completed plays: The Government Inspector, Marriage, and The Gamblers.

  The Government Inspector, which satirizes a corrupt society, was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely studied in schools and universities:

  "I resolved to gather into one heap everything that was bad in Russia which I was aware of at that time, all the injustices being perpetrated in those places, and in those circumstances that especially cried out for justice, and tried to hold them all up to ridicule, at one fell swoop."-Nikolai Gogol

  Marriage is a comedy about the business of matchmaking and matrimony; The Gamblers is an excoriating piece about the excesses of the Moscow aristocracy.

Children

• Taras Bulba (1835)
  Movie (1909), Aleksandr Drankov, Director
  Movie (1962), J. Lee Thompson, Director with Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner  DVD  VHS

• The Government Inspector (Revizor) (1836)
  See also The Inspector-General
  Movie, The Inspector General (1949), Henry Koster, Director with Danny Kaye  DVD  VHS
  Movie (1952), Vladimir Petrov, Director  DVD 

• The Nose (Nos) (1836)
  After disappearing from the Deputy Inspector's face, his nose shows up around town before returning to its proper place.  Ages 4 - 8.
  Movie (Animation) (1963), Alexandre Alexeieff , Director

• Dead Souls (Mertvye Dushi I-Ii) (1842)
  Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"--deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them--we are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov's proposition. This lively, idiomatic English version by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessible the full extent of the novel's lyricism, sulphurous humor, and delight in human oddity and error.
  Movie (1909), Pjotr Tshardynin, Director

• Sorochintsy Fair (1991), Gennadij Spirin, ed.  with Patricia Crampton, Translator

See also:

• Nikolai Gogol (1961) by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

• Nikolai Gogol (1962) by Janko Lavrin

• Gogol: His Life and His Worksl (1965) by Vsevolod Setchkarev with Robert Kramer, Translator

• Gogol: The Biography of a Divided Soul (1974) by Henri Troyat

• The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol (1976) by Simon Karlinsky
  Through careful textual readings of Gogol's most famous works, Karlinsky argues that Gogol's homosexual orientation--which Gogol himself could not accept or forgive in himself--may provide the missing key to the riddle of Gogol's personality.

• The Creation of Nikolai Gogol (1979) by Donald Fanger

• Symbolic Art of Gogol: Essays on His Short Fiction (1982) by James B. Woodward

• Gogol: A Bibliography (1989) by Philip E. Frantz
  This is the most comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Gogol.

• Gogol (1989) by Vasilii Vasilevich Gippius with Robert A. Maguire, Translator

• Nikolay Gogol (1989) by Faith Wigzell and Jane Grayson, eds.

• Russian Literature in the Age of Pushkin and Gogol: Poetry and Drama (1998) by Christine Rydel

• Masterpieces of Russian Literature (1999)
  Features Five Great Short Stories by Chekhov, Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground, The Overcoat and Other Short Stories by Gogol, Pushkin's The Queen of Spades and Other Stories, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories by Tolstoy, Fathers and Sons by Turgenev, and Gorky's Chelkash and Other Stories.

• Frames of the Imagination: Gogol's Arabesques and the Romantic Question of Genre (2000) by Melissa Frazier

• Gogol in Rome (2004) by Katia Kapovich
  Katia Kapovich creates a gallery of narrative portraits that are both unheroic and unforgettable - mute children, laundering women, Moldovan homosexuals, beggars, pickpockets, peasants, Israeli Bedouins, Russian draftees, Soviet boy scouts, political convicts, all at home in Dostoyevskian, borderline worlds. She documents the great beauty that can emerge from marginalized existence.

• Interpreting Nikolai Gogol Within Russian Orthodoxy: A Neglected Influence on the First Great Russian (2006) by James D. Hardy and Leonard J. Stanton