book, every month, or even every week, wormed this same story out of Thoma Grigorovitch, and the latter completely forgot about it. Once upon a time, one of those gentlemen who, like the usurers at our yearly fairs, clutch and beg and steal every sort of frippery, and issue mean little volumes, no thicker than an A.B.C. There were times when, if you asked him to relate a thing afresh, he would interpolate new matter, or alter it so that it was impossible to recognise it.
Thoma Grigorovitch had one very strange eccentricity: to the day of his death he never liked to tell the same thing twice. Short Fiction St. Johnâs Eve A Story Told by the Sacristan of the Dikanka Church â A May Night,â â The Viy,â â Memoirs of a Madman,â â The Nose,â and â The Mantleâ were translated by Claud Field and originally published in 1916. â St. Johnâs Eve,â â Taras Bulba,â â How the Two Ivans Quarrelled,â â The Mysterious Portrait,â and â The Calashâ were translated by Vizetelly and Company and originally published in 1887. Hapgood and originally published in 1886. â Old-Fashioned Farmersâ was translated by Isabel F. â The Night of Christmas Eveâ was translated by George Tolstoy and originally published in 1860. This edition of Nikolai Gogolâs Short Fiction was produced from various translations.
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III: An Unexpected RivalâThe Conspiracy.Hapgood, Vizetelly and Company, and George Tolstoy.