29 pages 58-minute read

Nikolai Gogol

The Nose

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1836

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In the bureaucratic maze of 1830s St. Petersburg, where social rank determines everything and the impossible becomes mundane, a civil servant's morning takes an extraordinary turn. Test your understanding of Gogol's masterful satire where noses have minds of their own and society's absurdities know no bounds.

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