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Short Fiction
was compiled from short stories and novellas published between 1831 and 1842 by
Nikolai Gogol.
They were translated from Russian between 1860 and 1916 by
Claud Field, Isabel F. Hapgood, Vizetelly and Company, and George Tolstoy.

This ebook was produced for
Standard Ebooks
by
Robin Whittleton,
and is based on transcriptions from
various sources
and on digital scans from the
Internet Archive.

The cover page is adapted from
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks,
a painting completed in 1891 by
Ilya Repin.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by
The League of Moveable Type.

The first edition of this ebook was released on
December 20, 2017, 5:05 p.m.
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