The Overcoat and Other Short Stories
Author: Nikolai Gogol
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….Read More
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Well drawn characterizations and description of life
The Overcoat is one of Gogol’s later short stories and much more grounded in reality than some of his earlier work, but still has a little of the fantastical in it. It is a satiric indictment on the bureaucracy of the times with a lovely moral to the story of being kind and showing compassion to others.