The Cloak

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The Cloak is a short work of prose by Ukrainian-born Russian librettist Nikolai Gogol. The fiction and its writer have had a significant impact on Russian literary scene, as articulated in a citation ascribed to Fyodor Dostoevsky: “We all come out from Gogol’s ‘Overcoat’.” The tale has been rendered into motion pictures and theatrical plays.

The Cloak comprises: The Queen Of Spades – A.S. Pushkin; The Cloak – N.V. Gogol; The District Doctor – I.S. Turgenev; The Christmas Tree And The Wedding – F.M. Dostoyevsky; God Sees The Truth, But Waits – L.N. Tolstoy; How A Muzhik Fed Two Officials – M.Y. Saltykov; The Shades, A Phantasy – V.G. Korolenko; The Signal – V.N. Garshin; The Darling – A.P. Chekhov; The Bet – A.P. Chekhov; Vanka – A.P. Chekhov; Hide and Seek – F.K. Sologub; Dethroned – I.N. Potapenko; The Servant – S.T. Semyonov; One Autumn Night – M. Gorky; Her Lover – M. Gorky; Lazarus – L.N. Andreyev; The Revolutionist – M.P. Artzybashev; and The Outrage – A.I. Kuprin.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Russian playwright of Ukrainian descent. Though Nikolai was regarded by his comrades as a noteworthy fellow of the natural school of Russian literary pragmatism, connoisseurs have observed in his short story a basically vehement susceptibility, with stresses of unreal and the incongruous, including The Nose, Viy, The Overcoat, Nevsky Prospekt. His first novels, as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were impelled by his Ukrainian ancestry, Ukrainian tradition and urban myths. His succeeding works derided civil exploitation in the Russian Empire – The Government Inspector, Dead Souls. Taras Bulba and the dramaturgical Marriage, as well as these short fiction, Diary of a Madman, The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich, The Portrait and The Carriage, are some of his spectacular novels.
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