The Salamander and Other Gothic Tales contains eight stories by Vladimir Odoevsky (1804-69). These include The Salamander, The Cosmorama, and The Sylph, Odoevsky's three main metaphysical tales. The collection as a whole represents some of the best of Russian Romantic fiction from the first half of the nineteenth century. This is the first English edition of Odoevsky's work to be published since 1965 and six of the tales are here translated for the first time.

Contents:

• New Year
• The Tale of a Dead Body, Belonging to No One Knows Whom
• The Story of a Cock, a Cat and a Frog
• The Sylph
• Letter IV [To Countess Ye. P. Rostopchina]
• The Live Corpse
• The Cosmorama
• The Salamander