In Dostoevsky's Poor Folk, this story is recommended by Varvara to Devushkin but the latter rejects it as unrealistic, despite his own obvious resemblance to the story's main character.
In Dostoevsky's Poor Folk, this story is recommended by Varvara to Devushkin but the latter rejects it as unrealistic, despite his own obvious resemblance to the story's main character. It begins, "Once, in a department-- but better not mention which department." At the story's end, the main character becomes a ghost who haunts the Person of Consequence and the streets of Petersburg until he steals back what belongs to him. FTP, name this story about Akaky Akakievich and an item of his clothing, a work by Nikolai Gogol.
In Dostoevsky's Poor Folk, this story is recommended by Varvara to Devushkin but the latter rejects it as unrealistic, despite his own obvious resemblance to the story's main character.
The {Overcoat} or {Shinel}