The Diary of a Madman, and Other Russian Sketches

The Diary of a Madman, and Other Russian Sketches

By Nikolai Gogol, Leonid Andreyev, and Anton Chekhov
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Centering on the picaresque realism of Nikolai Gogol's (1809-1852) mid-nineteenth-century visions of the extraordinary in everyday life, this collection mines the ambiance and mind of pre-Revolutionary Russia. These seven stories take us from the Miracle Mile of St. Petersburg's Nevsky Prospekt, and a summer night in a Ukrainian village, to the fantastical psychological geographies of fathers, sons, and madmen. Augmenting Gogol's visions are two disturbing tales by the foremost storyteller of Russia's "Silver Age" Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919), and a coda from one of Anton Chekhov's (1860-1904) stable of memorable characters.

Contents include:

  1. Nevsky Prospekt - Nikolai Gogol
  2. The Diary of a Madman - Nikolai Gogol 
  3. Silence - Leonid Andreyev
  4. May Night or The Drowned Girl - Nikolai Gogol 
  5. Laughter - Leonid Andreyev
  6. The Portrait - Nikolai Gogol 
  7. On the Harmfulness of Smoking Tobacco - Anton Chekhov