{
  "type": "edition",
  "site": {
    "name": "The Book Quiver",
    "language": "en-US",
    "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "title": "Petersburg Tales: New Translation",
  "subtitle": null,
  "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/nikolai-v-gogol/petersburg-tales-new-translation/9781847493491",
  "publisher": "Alma Classics",
  "translators": [],
  "medium": "paper",
  "duration_seconds": null,
  "narrators": [],
  "isbn": "978-18-4749-349-1",
  "pages": 192,
  "published": "2014-03-15",
  "language": "en_US",
  "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/alma-classics/nikolai-gogol/petersburg-tales-new-translation_978-18-4749-349-1-a7b08712.webp?v=2026-10-22%2003%3A33%3A27",
  "json": "https://www.bookquiver.com/nikolai-v-gogol/petersburg-tales-new-translation/9781847493491.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.bookquiver.com/nikolai-v-gogol/petersburg-tales-new-translation/9781847493491.md",
  "binding": "Softcover",
  "description": "Written 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.",
  "book": {
    "title": "Petersburg Tales: New Translation",
    "slug": "petersburg-tales-new-translation",
    "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/nikolai-v-gogol/petersburg-tales-new-translation"
  },
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Nikolai V. Gogol",
      "slug": "nikolai-v-gogol",
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/nikolai-v-gogol"
    }
  ]
}