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Description edit
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.... read more
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- Ivan Ivanovitch: Add a description of this character.
- Ivan Nikiforovitch
- Athanasii Ivanovitch
- Kovalev
- Ivan Ivanovich
- Akakiy Akakievitch
- Oxana
- Peter Feodorovitch
- Anton Prokofievitch
- Petrovitch
- Choop
- Ivan Yakovlevitch
- Patzuck
- Solokha
- Akaki Akakievitch
- Ivan Dovgotchkun
- Ivan Pererépenko
- Basavriuk
- Pidórka
- Thoma Grigorovitch
- Korzh
- Madame Podtochina
- Ivan Nikiforovich
- Major Kovalyov
- Akakii Akakievich
- Afanasii Ivanovich
- Petrovich
- Pulcheria Ivanovna
- Ivan Yakovlevich
- Anton Prokofievich
- Ivan Pererepenko
- Ivan Dovgochkhun
- Peter Feodorovich
- Afanasil Ivanovich
- Mrs. Podtochina
Quotes edit
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“from Ivan Fyodorovich Shopnka and His Aunt -At the same moment a short old women,looking exactly like a coffee pot in a cap*****.Having come up close to Shopnka he threw his arms around him and kissed him first on the right cheek then on the left, and then on the right cheek again. Shopnka liked this greeting very muchfor his lips recieived the stranger's huge cheeks as thought hey were cushions”
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First Sentence edit
THE OUTSKIRTS of Kiev resounded to the din of a wedding feast.
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- Nikolai Gogol (Author)
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Page Count: 112
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Page Count: 112
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- Dewey: 891.733
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- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( G ) › Gogol, Nikolai
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Short Stories › Anthologies
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
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