Миргород by Nikolai Gogol
A collection of linked short stories set in provincial Ukraine that mixes folklore, satire and melancholy to portray a gallery of characters—eccentric old landowners, boisterous Cossacks and petty townsfolk—whose comic follies, superstitions and occasional violence expose social foibles and the clash between tradition and changing times, rendered in a style that alternates grotesque humor, vivid local detail and poignant observation.
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- Published
- 1835
- Nationality
- Russian
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- Original Language
- Russian
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- Alternate Titles
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- Mirgorod
- Tales of Mirgorod
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