And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon

And the Earth Will Sit on the MoonBy: Nikolai Gogol Series: Pushkin Press Classics Iconic short stories from the Russian master of satire, in a strikingly modern translation "The most morally complete writer: baffled, outraged, reverent, mock didactic, mocking, all at once. He honours life by feeling no one way about it." George Saunders No writer has captured the absurdity of the human condition as acutely as Nikolai Gogol. In a lively new translation by Oliver Ready, this collection

She sang odes to Lenin

It was no wonder

Mellon didn’t have an easy road to success

a goalkeeping legend who is also inexplicably in town

But her disappointment quickly turns to excitement when she discovers a hidden cigar box full of mementos

and shape recognition

Three times a week is a habit

many of whom he discovered himself with his sharp eye for all things cinematic

—Stephen Dobyns

eating right

After an earlier breakdown

” the book also reveals the inspirational story of a man whose life has been shaped by his father’s advice: Get back up