The Coat / Шинель

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The story presented in this book is a work that gave rise to a literary movement called the “natural school”.

The events described in the book are the story of the life and death of an inconspicuous clerk who loves his work and performs it diligently.

The plot is based on ordinary everyday material, but at the same time, creatively rethought everyday realities offer the reader artistic imagesthrough their deeply human nature. In this way the little story poses a number of large and important social questions.

This brilliant edition is the second book in the "Language Through Reading" series. Bilingual reading is an effective technique in learning a foreign language and provides a number of important learning benefits.

Having the original text and its literary translation side by side minimises the need to use a dictionary, saves time and does not distract from reading. This also enables the reader to better understand the features that differ between Russian and English and contributes to accelerated vocabulary acquisition.