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The Overcoat

Nikolai Gogol

Form
Form Short Story
Year
Year 1842
Originally in
Originally in Russian
Pages
Pages 20

A meek copying clerk scrimps his way to the new overcoat that briefly makes him somebody; when thieves strip it from him, officialdom shrugs, and his ghost comes back for the coats of important men.

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The Overcoat, Nikolai Gogol

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