The Overcoat and Other Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories)
No CoverMary Struve, Isabel Florence Hapgood, Stanley Appelbaum, Nikolai Gogol, Gleb Struve
Four Gogol tales blending satire, absurd fantasy, and pathos—from a runaway nose to a poor clerk’s overcoat.
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Four Gogol tales blending satire, absurd fantasy, and pathos—from a runaway nose to a poor clerk’s overcoat.
will contain mild spoilers
Mild devoted marriage in one story; no sexual content
Robbery, death from cold and shock; surreal detached nose
Occasional coarse or insulting period language in quarrels
Social drinking and food-centered hospitality scenes
No LGBTQ+ representation present
Passing Orthodox Christian and church references
Absurdist fantasy: living nose; ghostly apparition
Brief supernatural ghost element after a death
Central satire of bureaucracy, rank, and class snobbery
No self-harm or suicide content present
On-page ridicule, poverty, and bureaucratic cruelty
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