Spaffew’s Reviews > A Place Bewitched and Other Stories (riverrun editions): A beautiful new edition of Gogol's short fiction, translated by Constance Garnett > Status Update

The old lady looked intently at Ivan Fyodorovitch, or perhaps it only seemed that she looked intently at him. She was good-natured simplicity itself, though; she looked as though she would like to ask Ivan Fyodorovitch: 'How many cucumbers have you salted for the winter?'