The overcoat and other short stories / Nikolai Gogol.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Dover thrift editions

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852--Translations into English.

Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich.

Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852.

Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852.

Genre:

Translations.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vii, 103 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, 1992.

Language Note:

Translated from Russian.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Old-fashioned farmers

The tale of how Ivan Ivanovich quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich

The nose

The overcoat.

Notes:

Translated from the Russian.

Other Format:

Online version: Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852. Short stories. English. Selections. Overcoat and other short stories.

ISBN:

0486270572

9780486270579

OCLC:

24467291

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