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The Nose Gogol, Nikolai Published: 1836 Type(s): Short Fiction Source: .au 1 About Gogol: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (April 1, 1809 — March 4, 1852) was a Russian-language writer of Ukrainian origin. Although his early works were heavily influenced by his Ukrainian heritage and upbringing, he wrote in Russian and his works belong to the tradition of Russian literat- ure. The novel Dead Souls (1842), the play Revizor (1836, 1842), and the short story The Overcoat (1842) count among his masterpieces. Source: Wikipedia 2 Chapter 1 ON 25 March an unusually strange event occurred in St. Petersburg. For that morning Barber Ivan Yakovlevitch, a dweller on the Vozkresensky Prospekt (his name is lost now—it no longer figures on a signboard bear- ing a portrait of a gentleman with a soaped cheek, and the words: Also, Blood Let Here)—for that morning Barber Ivan Yakovlevitch awoke early, and caught the smell of newly baked bread. Raising himself a little, he perceived his wife (a most respectable dame, and one especially fond of coffee) to be just in the act of drawing newly baked rolls from the oven. Prascovia Osipovna, he said, I would rather not have any coffee for breakfast, but, instead, a hot roll and an onion,—the truth being that he wanted both but knew it to be useless to ask for two things at once, as Prascovia Osipovna did not fancy such tricks. Oh, the fool shall have his bread, the dame reflected. So much the better for me then, as I shall be able to drink a second lot of coffee. And duly she threw on to the table a roll. Ivan Yakovlevitch donned a jacket over his shirt for politeness sake, and, seating himself at the table, po