This is Standard Ebooks' collection of Gogol's shorter works. It appears to be a compilation …
Confusing listing, because Standard Ebooks seems to have made their own meta-compilation from various translations of Gogol's shorter works. Here's their page: standardebooks.org/ebooks/nikolai-gogol/short-fiction/claud-field_isabel-f-hapgood_vizetelly-and-company_george-tolstoy
urgh, the first story in the Gogol compilation dropped enough casual antisemitism that I didn't really process what the story was about, and I haven't had the gumption to read the next one yet. I hope they're not all like this, because I would like to be less clueless about this author.
Took me a while to pick the Gogol back up because the antisemitism of "St. John's Eve" was so overwhelming. I'm glad I did though. "A May Night" is delightfully weird and I was actually able to enjoy it.
I may just skip Taras Bulba because I've heard that that's particularly hateful about both Jews and Turks, but it looks like I'll at least be able to enjoy the rest of the collection.
When I added this I hadn't realised that it's essentially the "Gogol Back Catalogue" omnibus. In hindsight it makes more sense to list individual works.
