The Overcoat

By Gogol, Nikolai Vassilievitch

Book Id: WPLBN0000627460
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Overcoat
Author:	Gogol, Nikolai Vassilievitch
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: In the department of but it is better not to mention the department. There is nothing more irritable than departments, regiments, courts of justice, and, in a word, every branch of public service. Each individual attached to them nowadays thinks all society insulted in his person. Quite recently a complaint was received from a justice of the peace, in which he plainly demonstrated that all the imperial institutions were going to the dogs, and that the Czar?s sacred name was being taken in vain; and in proof he appended to the complaint a romance in which the justice of the peace is made to appear about once every ten lines, and sometimes in a drunken condition. Therefore, in order to avoid all unpleasantness, it will be better to describe the department in question only as a certain department.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Overcoat, 1 -- Nikolai Gogol, 1