'The Bespoke Overcoat': Gogol's giggles, ghosts and class struggle – People's World
VENICE, Calif. — Wolf Mankowitz’s The Bespoke Overcoat is a theatrical adaptation of “The Overcoat,” a short story written in 1842 by the Ukrainian-born Nikolai Gogol, who along with Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev and Gorky is one of the most renowned contributors to Russian literature.
Source: peoplesworld.org