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The Overcoat

by Nikolai Gogol

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"The Overcoat" is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, published in 1843. The story has had a great influence on Russian literature. Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé, discussing Russian realist writers, said: "We all came out from under Gogol's Overcoat". Writing in 1941, Vladimir Nabokov described "The Overcoat" as "The greatest Russian short story ever written".

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