Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol

"The difficulty with our modern biographical-critical approach to literature is that it tends to make the masterpieces themselves superfluous, except as illustrations to somebody's thesis. Reading Mr. Leonard Kent's introduction to [this book], I was reminded of what I had written myself and what others had written, and wondered why anybody took the trouble to read Gogol. Gogol as we describe him is so much more interesting than his books."Gogol, Nikolai is the author of 'Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol', published 1983 under ISBN 9780226300696 and ISBN 0226300692.