An 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.A wounded solider vanishes into notoriety.A nose is found in a loaf of bread.Places—like the Nevesky Prospect—are not what they seem.Nikolai Gogol was one of the nineteenth century’s greatest and most influential Russian writers,