Reading path
Out of the Overcoat
Dostoevsky said the whole of Russian literature came out of Gogol's Overcoat, and this shelf is the proof. A copying clerk, a stolen coat, a ghost on a Petersburg bridge, and then sixty years of stories in which nothing happens except a whole life. From Pushkin's fatal card game to Chekhov standing in the snow beside a woman he should not love, the Russian story watches small people with enormous attention. No tradition has ever been kinder to its clerks, or crueller.
In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
The route
- 1. The Queen of SpadesAlexander Pushkin, 1834
- 2. Diary of a MadmanNikolai Gogol, 1835
- 3. The NoseNikolai Gogol, 1836
- 4. The OvercoatNikolai Gogol, 1842
- 5. White NightsFyodor Dostoevsky, 1848
- 6. Bezhin MeadowIvan Turgenev, 1851
- 7. First LoveIvan Turgenev, 1860
- 8. Notes From the UndergroundFyodor Dostoevsky, 1864
- 9. Lady Macbeth of MtsenskNikolai Leskov, 1865
- 10. The Death of Ivan IlyichLeo Tolstoy, 1886
- 11. MiseryAnton Chekhov, 1886
- 12. The KissAnton Chekhov, 1887
- 13. Ward No. 6Anton Chekhov, 1892
- 14. The StudentAnton Chekhov, 1894
- 15. GooseberriesAnton Chekhov, 1898
- 16. The Lady with the DogAnton Chekhov, 1899
- 17. Poor FolkFyodor Dostoevsky, 1846