Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to the uruguayan author Nikolai Gogol. Nikolai Gogol was a Russian novelist, short story writer and playwright of Ukrainian origin. All his work is founded on realism, but a realism of his own, with traces of what would become surrealism. Works selected for this book: - The Nose; - The Viy; - The Cloak; - Old-Fashioned Farmers; - The Overcoat; - Memoirs of a Madman; - The Mysterious Portrait. This book also contains biographical comments by William Ralston Shedden-Ralston and William Lyon Phelps. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!