The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol, art by Sarah Dobai for children and peasants

and peasants

beautifully photographed

although Western economists typically concluded that money ultimately played a limited role in the Soviet Union

Written at various times throughout the 1920s and 1930s following the deaths of its subjects

Taking its reader from Paustovsky's Ukrainian youth

The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol, art by Sarah Dobai for children and peasantsIn The Overcoat, a lowly government clerk's life is briefly transformed by the extravagant purchase of a new coat. This new edition is accompanied by artwork from Sarah Dobai, who has taken a series of images of commercial displays, taken in London and Paris, to reflect upon the storys preoccupation with material desire and illusion. Hardback