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Nikolai Gogol

The Ukrainian-born Russian writer of The Overcoat and Dead Souls.

1809–1852 LiteraryFolklore
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About Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol was born in Ukraine and wrote in Russian. His stories mix comedy, folklore and the grotesque, from the Ukrainian tales of Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, which include "A May Night," to "The Overcoat," also translated as "The Cloak." His novel Dead Souls is a comic masterpiece.
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A May Night

Narrated by Greg Cooper

Forbidden love meets folklore as Levko seeks Hanna’s hand and faces a witch by a moonlit pool. Gogol’s romantic ghost tale shimmers with humor and chills, beautifully nar...

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The Cloak

Narrated by Jason Michael Mann

Akaky Akakievich is a poor copy clerk in St. Petersburg. He has no friends, and the other clerks laugh at him. Then winter comes, and his old overcoat is beyond repair. H...

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