Question

A story by this author ends after a hungover man who promised to host a dinner party is found by his angry guests hiding in the title (15[1])vehicle. In a story by this author, a man becomes a monk to purify his soul after painting a religious scene in which every figure had demonic eyes. In that story by this author, a painter abandons his style (-5[1])and paints for aristocrats (15[1])after a bag of money (15[1])is found (15[1])in the frame (15[1])of a cursed portrait (-5[1])of a moneylender. Near the end (15[1])of a story by this author, a cobbler named (15[1])(*) Hoffmann helps beat up an officer for dancing with the wife (10[1])of a tinsmith named Schiller. This author of the collection Arabesques (10[2])wrote a story in which a painter who takes opium (10[1])to dream (10[1])of a dark-haired (10[1])prostitute is contrasted with Lieutenant Pirogov, who (10[1])followed a blonde woman (10[1])down the title (10[1])street. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 (10[1])points, name this (10[1])author who included the story “Nevsky Prospect” (10[2])in his Petersburg (10[2])Tales. ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Nikolai Gogol [or Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol] (The first story is “The Carriage.” The story in the second and third sentences is “The Portrait.”)
<Literature - European Literature - Short Fiction>
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