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Strelbytskyy multimedia publishing format available. The overcoat is a classic russian satire first published in 1842. Perhaps it may strike the reader as a rather strange and farfetched name, but i can assure him that it was not farfetched at all. Nov 14, 2018 patrick myles is raising funds for the overcoat by nikolai gogol a short film on kickstarter. Free download or read online the overcoat and other short stories pdf epub book. In 1831, gogol brought out the first volume of his ukrainian stories, evenings on a farm near dikanka. The overcoat follows the life and death of akaky akakievich bashmachkin, a lowranking official who works as a copyist in a nameless department in the russian bureaucracy.
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