Author: Gogol, N. V.
Title: Starosvetskie Pomeshchiki (the Old World Land Owners)
Description: Moskva / Leningrad, Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo khudozhestvennoi literatury, 1932. Third edition; 6 3/4 x 4 1/2; pp. 3-37, [1]; light-brown wraps, printed and ruled in red and green; small, closed cut to fore-edge of front wrap; paper around staples slightly pulling; light, uniform age-toning; in about very good condition. First written by Nikolai Gogol in 1835, the short story would be the first in the author's Mirgorod collection and would tell a "bittersweet and ironic reworking of the Baucis and Philemon legend from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Very good .

Keywords: Classics, Russia


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