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    The Cloak
    The Cloak
    The Cloak
    Audiobook1 hour

    The Cloak

    Written by Nikolai Gogol

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was a preeminent Ukrainian-born story writer. He is particularly famous for those stories which veer in the direction of surrealism and the grotesque.

    The Cloak is one such tale. Akaky Akakiyevich is a reclusive and widely ridiculed lower official whose job is to copy letters. He lives a hand-to-mouth existence with his elderly landlady and has little money. But the harsh weather in St. Petersburg necessitates the purchase of a new cloak. His existing cloak, threadbare and filthy, is the butt of jokes among his comrades, and the tailor refuses to patch it up any further.

    Akaky Akakiyevich has somehow to scrape together the money for a new one. As he begins to save for it, the cloak begins to take on a much greater significance in his life. He dreams of it, visualises it, plans it with the tailor and scrimps and saves until the glorious day when he is able to actually commission its manufacture.

    The cloak is his pride and joy...but disaster waits around the corner. And in true Gogol style, the story takes a weird twist.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateMay 20, 2015
    ISBN9781467698658
    The Cloak
    Author

    Nikolai Gogol

    Nikolai Gogol was a Russian novelist and playwright born in what is now considered part of the modern Ukraine. By the time he was 15, Gogol worked as an amateur writer for both Russian and Ukrainian scripts, and then turned his attention and talent to prose. His short-story collections were immediately successful and his first novel, The Government Inspector, was well-received. Gogol went on to publish numerous acclaimed works, including Dead Souls, The Portrait, Marriage, and a revision of Taras Bulba. He died in 1852 while working on the second part of Dead Souls.

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      This is not a comment on the actual material. I only got through about 6 minutes of this before I had to give up because of the narrator. I have never heard such a bizarre reading of anything. Emphasis is in weird places and she has such an odd affectation throughout, like she's trying to make the story sound suspenseful or...something.