Gogol Short Stories.

Gogol is where Russian literature gets strange, and where it gets funny. This volume gathers three complete stories from the Petersburg Tales: Шинель (The Overcoat, 1842), Нос (The Nose, 1836) and Записки сумасшедшего (Diary of a Madman, 1835). A clerk saves for a coat, a nose walks out on its owner, and a copyist's diary slides quietly into madness. All three are unabridged.

The format is a true parallel text. On the left-hand page is Gogol's Russian, with a short literal English gloss printed beneath every word so you can see its exact grammatical role in context. On the facing right-hand page is a natural, modern English translation, and matching paragraph numbers keep the two sides in step across the spread. Read the Russian with the glosses, glance across to see how the whole sentence reads in English, then read the Russian again without looking down.

Every multisyllabic word carries its stress mark, and the letter ё, which standard Russian print writes as е, is restored throughout. The text follows the 1938 Academy edition in standard modern orthography, and a complete alphabetical glossary of all 4,131 words across the three stories sits at the back, each with its dictionary form, stress and definition.