{"_id":"63868b71812519774fce0850","title":"The Mantle","author":"Nikolai Gogol","code":"the-mantle","words":11014,"publish_year":1842,"publish_source":"СОЧИНЕНЫ (Compositions)","image":"hansom.jpg","image_alt":"A man by a horse-drawn hansom in the snow.","genres":["literary","quirky"],"blurb":"All that was indecisive and vague in his gait and gestures had disappeared. A new fire began to gleam in his eyes, and in his bold dreams he sometimes even proposed to himself the question whether he should not have a marten-fur collar made for his coat.","description":"A low ranking councillor must dig deep to spend half of his yearly earnings to buy a new coat, lest he die from cold.","rating":4,"original_language":"Russian","unique_cover":"Cover sketch of a man walking towards a top hat in the snow.","cover_position":"top","translators":["Claud Field"],"has_review":true,"has_collections":[{"code":"literary","title":"Best of Literary","collection_type":"genre"}]}