Download or read book The Nose (Annotated with Biography) written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Nose" is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol. Written between 1835 and 1836, it tells of a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own. Dmitri Shostakovich's opera The Nose, first performed in 1930, is based on this story. A short film based on the story was made by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker in 1963 and used pinscreen animation.