The Overcoat and other Tales - Nicolai Gogol

Short tales of good and evil.

Many writers and critics have recognized Gogol's huge influence on Russian, Ukrainian and world literature. Gogol's influence was acknowledged by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Franz Kafka, Mikhail Bulgakov, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor and others.[16][17] Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé said: "We all came out from under Gogol's Overcoat." Wiki