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The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

Author(s): Nikolai Gogol

Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)

Genre(s): Short Stories

Era(s): Various

Four works by great 19th-century Russian author: “The Nose,” a savage satire of Russia’s incompetent bureaucrats; “Old-Fashioned Farmers,” a pleasant depiction of an elderly couple living in rustic seclusion; “The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich,” one of Gogol’s most famous comic stories; and “The Overcoat,” widely considered a masterpiece of form.

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