{"product_id":"petersburg-tales-newly-translated-and-annotated","title":"Petersburg Tales: Newly Translated and Annotated","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant façade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor (‘The Nose’), a painter and a lieutenant whose romantic pursuits meet with contrasting degrees of success (‘Nevsky Prospect’) and a lowly civil servant whose existence desperately unravels when he loses his prized new coat (‘The Overcoat’). Also including the ‘Diary of Madman’, these Petersburg Tales paint a critical yet hilarious portrait of a city riddled with pomposity and self-importance, masterfully juxtaposing nineteenth-century realism with madcap surrealism, and combining absurdist farce with biting satire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: UK, 2014\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Alma Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003ePages: 192\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 1847493491\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9781847493491\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nikolai Gogol","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54123435065610,"sku":null,"price":11.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781847493491.jpg?v=1794567311","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/petersburg-tales-newly-translated-and-annotated","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}