{"product_id":"place-bewitched-and-other-stories","title":"A Place Bewitched and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn original selection of short fiction by Nikolai Gogol, \"the Russian Dickens,\" translated by the great Constance Garnett and curated by Natasha Randall, that captures the genius of one of the most daring, inventive writers of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA wounded solider vanishes into notoriety.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA nose is found in a loaf of bread.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlaces--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003elike the Nevesky Prospect--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eare not what they seem.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNikolai Gogol was one of the nineteenth century's greatest and most influential Russian writers, a realist whose acerbic observations and taste for the absurd give his writing its strange, comic voice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this edition of \u003ci\u003eA Place Bewitched and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, Natasha Randall presents a new, curated collection of Gogol's short fiction, selected from the work of Constance Garnett, one of Gogol's earliest translators. Randall has lightly revised Garnett's essential translations and frames the collection with a new foreword. Full of the wit of Gogol's work, this edition is the perfect introduction to a great writer and a must for the enthusiast.","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44458464542857,"sku":"9780374231477","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0376\/3057\/4729\/files\/57845083.jpg?v=1757072343","url":"https:\/\/thebookmarkpr.com\/products\/place-bewitched-and-other-stories","provider":"The Bookmark Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}