Cover artwork: Alexander Ivanov, Portrait of Nikolai Gogol (1840s). Public Domain Mark.
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SHORT STORY · PLANNED CAST READING
The Overcoat
One small life. One very important coat.
An overlooked clerk saves for a new overcoat and briefly finds a place in the world. Gogol turns his fragile triumph into a darkly comic, haunting tale.
$4 USD · one-time purchase
Planned reading · Pre-orders opening soon. Release date to come.
- A planned English-language cast reading for your phone
- A story of dignity, bureaucracy, and the strange afterlife of an ordinary possession
- Recording has not begun; release date and listening length are still to come
The individual story titled The Mantle in Claud Field’s historical English translation; a standalone reading of the work also known as The Overcoat.