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The Overcoat Nikolai Gogol

The Overcoat By Nikolai Gogol

The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol


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With the publication of The Overcoat in 1842, Nicolai Gogol (1809-1852) inaugurated a new chapter in Russian literature, in which the underdog and social misfit is treated not as a figure of fun or an object of charity, but as a human being with as much right to happiness as anybody else.

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The Overcoat: and Other Tales of Good and Evil by Nikolai Gogol

The compassion, simplicity, and gentle humor with which he treats the poignant quest of a hapless civil servant for the return of his stolen overcoat-and the fantastic yet realistic manner in which he takes revenge on his nemesis, the Very Important Person-mark The Overcoat as one of the greatest achievements of Gogol's genius.

The five other Tales of Good and Evil in this superb collection demonstrate the broad range of Gogol's literary palette in his short fiction: the fantastic, supernaturally tinged The Terrible Vengeance, the comic portraiture of Ivan Fydorovich Shponka and His Aunt, the tragic moral realism of The Portrait and Nevsky Avenue, and the rampaging satire and absurdism of his send-up of Russian upper-class stupidity, The Nose. The stories offer the reader the perfect introduction to the imaginative genius of Gogol, which was to flower so triumphantly in his masterpiece, Deal Souls.

About Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was a novelist and political satirist. The author of Dead Souls and The Overcoat, he was one of Russia's greatest writers.

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CIN0393003043A
9780393003048
0393003043
The Overcoat: and Other Tales of Good and Evil by Nikolai Gogol
Used - Well Read
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
19650917
288
N/A
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