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The Overcoat

by Nikolai Gogol
Deaver Brown
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The author of Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky said, "We all come out from Gogol's the Overcoat." The story centers on an impoverished clerk who is dedicated to his job as a routine copyist though not recognized for his hard work. Younger clerks mock him for his dedication. His threadbare overcoat is mocked, as he is. He saves to get a new one and wears it for a glorious evening, only to have it stolen that night. He dies soon thereafter from his great loss. Thereafter his ghost is reported to haunt that part of St. Petersburg where the coat was stolen. The story of a lowly clerk, or Russian, come to nothing was a theme of Gogol and many other 19th century Russian writers.

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Publisher: Simply Magazine Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781614961154
  • File size: 39640 KB
  • Release date: March 5, 2014
  • Duration: 01:22:34

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  • ISBN: 9781614961154
  • File size: 39649 KB
  • Release date: March 5, 2014
  • Duration: 01:22:34
  • Number of parts: 2

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Fiction Literature

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The author of Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky said, "We all come out from Gogol's the Overcoat." The story centers on an impoverished clerk who is dedicated to his job as a routine copyist though not recognized for his hard work. Younger clerks mock him for his dedication. His threadbare overcoat is mocked, as he is. He saves to get a new one and wears it for a glorious evening, only to have it stolen that night. He dies soon thereafter from his great loss. Thereafter his ghost is reported to haunt that part of St. Petersburg where the coat was stolen. The story of a lowly clerk, or Russian, come to nothing was a theme of Gogol and many other 19th century Russian writers.

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Fiction Literature
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Simply Magazine
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781614961154
    File size: 39640 KB
    Release date: March 5, 2014
    Duration: 01:22:34

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781614961154
    File size: 39649 KB
    Release date: March 5, 2014
    Duration: 01:22:34
    Number of parts: 2

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  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English