The Mysterious Portrait

This early work by Nikolai Gogol was originally published in 1835 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'the Mysterious Portrait' is a short story about a penniless artist who discovers a magical painting in art shop. The painting offers him the choice of striving to create his own artistic success or to accept its assistance and achieve guaranteed riches and fame. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born in Sorochintsi, Ukraine in 1809. In 1831, Gogol brought out the first volume of his Ukrainian stories, 'Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka'. It met with immediate success, and he followed it a year later with a second volume. 'the Nose' is regarded as a masterwork of comic short fiction, and 'the Overcoat' is now seen as one of the greatest short stories ever written; some years later, Dostoyevsky famously stated "We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'." He is seen by many contemporary critics as one of the greatest short story writers who has ever lived, and theFather of Russia's Golden Age of Realism." 9781473322301 1473322308 80 Fiction NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LIe8rQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Nikolai Gogol
• • Publisher: Read & Co. Classics
• • Publication Date: Dec 01, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 80 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1473322308
• • ISBN-13: 9781473322301