The overcoat and other short stories
By: Nikolai Gogol.
Series: Dover thrift editions
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
Subjects: Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852 -- Translations into English.
Description: Four works by great 19th-century Russian author: "The Nose," a savage satire of Russia's incompetent bureaucrats and its snobbish and complacent upper classes; "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.
Notes: Translated from the Russian.