- ‘‘The Nose’’ (1836) is one of Gogol's best known short stories. It concerns a man whose nose has left his face and taken up an independent life of its own, and the man's efforts to restore the runaway nose to its proper place on his face.
- ‘‘The Overcoat’’ is Gogol's most celebrated short story. It concerns a poor scribe whose heart is broken when his prize possession, a fashionable overcoat, is stolen.
- Dead Souls (1842), by Nikolai Gogol, is a comic novel set in feudal Russia. It concerns a...
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