{"publishers": ["Overlook Press"], "identifiers": {"goodreads": ["282367"], "librarything": ["1977684"]}, "subtitle": "and other stories", "isbn_10": ["1585676314"], "pagination": "208 p. ;", "covers": [8331975], "lc_classifications": ["PG3476.Z7 A2 2006", "PG3476.Z7A2 2006"], "key": "/books/OL17210622M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL337513A"}], "ocaid": "isbn_9781585676316", "publish_places": ["Woodstock, NY"], "subjects": ["Russians -- Soviet Union -- Fiction", "Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1917-1945 -- Fiction", "Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- 1917-1970 -- Fiction", "Soviet Union -- Economic conditions -- 1917-1945 -- Fiction"], "isbn_13": ["9781585676316"], "genres": ["Fiction"], "source_records": ["marc:marc_miami_univ_ohio/allbibs0192.out:10636606:1498", "marc:marc_loc_updates/v36.i11.records.utf8:22032389:1192", "ia:isbn_9781585676316", "marc:marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary/sfpl_chq_2018_12_24_run03.mrc:151382895:1984", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part35.utf8:171901915:1192", "bwb:9781585676316", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.10.20150123.full.mrc:62124046:1107", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_030.bib.mrc:106240505:3045"], "title": "The galosh", "work_titles": ["Short stories."], "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Originally published: London : Angel, 2000\n\nIncludes bibliographical references (p. [204]-208)"}, "number_of_pages": 208, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "local_id": ["urn:sfpl:31223084782045"], "publish_date": "2006", "publish_country": "nyu", "by_statement": "Mikhail Zoshchenko ; translated from the Russian with an introduction by Jeremy Hicks", "oclc_numbers": ["70999080"], "works": [{"key": "/works/OL2440150W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "lccn": ["2008297292"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Though little known to English readers, Zoshchenko was one of the most popular writers in early Soviet Russiaa\u032e time when, as Hicks explains in a useful introduction to this collection of brief comic tales, satire was not yet prohibited by the authorities. Describing himself as \"a temporary substitute for the proletarian writer,\" Zoshchenko wrote in a deliberately simple style, filling his pages with corrupt officials, petty thieves, and confused bureaucrats."}, "latest_revision": 13, "revision": 13, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-09-28T00:17:09.078736"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-01-31T06:38:56.609340"}}