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Consider other works by Nicolai Gogol including Diary of a Madman, Christmas Eve, and The Gamblers.
Consider other works by classic Russian authors including The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.
Consider pairing stories by Gogol with contemporary work like Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake or absurdist, socially conscious work by Shirley Jackson.
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The Question and Answer section for The Overcoat is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Excerpt from “The Overcoat” By Nikolai Gogol 1842 Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was a Russian novelist and short story writer. In this excerpt from Gogol’s short story “The Overcoat,” a hard-working man is harassed by his coworkers. As you read, take...
The splendor of the cloak emphasizes how objects can transform people’s self-perceptions.
Examples of the narrator's unreliability:
"Akaky Akakievich was born, if my memory fails me not, towards night on the 23d of March."
