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The story narrates the life and death of titular councillor Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin (Russian: Акакий Акакиевич Башмачкин), an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. Akaky is dedicated to his job, t
From the Father of the Golden Age of Russian Literature, Nicolai Gogol's The Overcoat is one of the greatest short stories of all time. This satire on Russia's 19th century bureaucracy is amusing, pointed and has influenced many r
A comedy of manners and the odd dead body London is full of clubs. The Garrick, for example, caters to those with theatrical inclinations, the Athenaeum to eggheads. But the Asterisk may have the strictest membership regula
In June 1819 Henri Beyle (aka Stendhal) is rejected by the woman he loves. Beyle finds himself stranded in an afterlife populated by tourists, shoplifters and characters in novels he hasn’t yet written. Footnoting a host of other writers, An Overcoat is an obsessional play upon the life and work of...
”The Overcoat”, written by Nikolai Gogol in 1842 and published in 1843, is one of the most striking works of Russian literature, often associated with realism and renowned for its biting satire on bureaucracy and social indifference.The story follows the humble clerk Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin,...
Gogol’s story of a clerk in St. Petersburg adapted for the stage, and first performed at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre in London on 19 January, 2011. “An unforgettable production conjuring the alienating city of St Petersburg under the rigid hierarchy of Tsarist bureaucracy and its unfortunate...
Winner of the 2021 ACT Book of the Year’It starts to rain as I step outof my hotel ….’ So begins Subhash Jaireth’s striking collection of essays on the writers, and their writing, that have enriched his own life. The works of Franz Kafka, Marina Tsvetaeva, Mikhail Bulgakov, Paul Celan, Hiromi Ito,...
Clifford Flush founded the Asterisk Club in Chelsea to provide a home for wrongfully acquitted murderers, being one himself. Qualified prospective members need only name the club as beneficiary in their wills in order to avail themselves of its co
**Winner of the 2021 ACT Book of the Year**'It starts to rain as I step outof my hotel ....' So begins Subhash Jaireth's striking collection of essays on the writers, and their writing, that have enriched his own life. The
A comedy of manners and the odd dead body.London is full of clubs. The Garrick, for example, caters to those with theatrical inclinations, the Athenaeum to eggheads. But the Asterisk may have the strictest membership regulations: Acquitted murderers only.Happily, Benjamin Cann fits the brief. Sure,...
The story of two men who almost single-handedly saved their football club from extinction. In the early 80s David Kilpatrick and Graham Morris spied architects’ plans to turn Spotland, the home of their beloved, beleaguered Rochdale AFC, into a housing estate. They set about saving the club but...
This novel seamlessly blends the intellectual musings of Thomas Mann with a Hungarian folktale exploring the boundaries of reality and fantasy. In this captivating and whimsical novel, the German novelist and critic Thomas Mann is visiting his tailor, Klaus, to be measured for a new overcoat, but...
This remarkable debut collection from Geraldine Clarkson contains the uncontainable; wondrous, spellbound and daring poems, happy to roam from South American monasteries to the shorelines of memory. These bold, often witty and always hawk-eyed poems survey matters of faith, tragedy and...
Five tragicomic tales from the visionary writer heralded by Vladimir Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced"A midlevel bureaucrat in the czar's administration, Poprishchin is hurrying to work when he
On Safari - Marshmellow Overcoat CDSpecificsAlbum: On SafariArtist: Marshmellow OvercoatLabel: CD BabyGenre: RockMPN: noneTracklist1. Over Me Written-By – Calkins* Written-By – Calkins* 2. Faces On The Floor Written-By – Verbocy*, Calkins* Written-By – Verbocy*, Calkins* 3. Nothing's Every Been The...
Brian Woodworth remembers his career as an undertaker
Joseph had a little overcoat, but it was full of holes—just like this book! When Joseph’s coat got too old and shabby, he made it into a jacket. But what did he make it into after that? And after that?As children turn the pages of this book, they can use the die-cut holes to guess what Joseph will...
Joseph had a little overcoat, but it was full of holes—just like this book! When Joseph’s coat got too old and shabby, he made it into a jacket. But what did he make it into after that? And after that?Joseph had a little overcoat, but it was full of holes—just like this book! When Joseph’s coat got...
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