{"first_publish_date": "2000", "subtitle": "and other stories", "dewey_number": ["891.7342"], "title": "The galosh", "covers": [851154], "subject_places": ["Soviet Union"], "lc_classifications": ["PG3476.Z7 A2 2006"], "subject_people": ["Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895-1958)"], "key": "/works/OL2440150W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL337513A"}}], "subject_times": ["1917-1945", "1917-1970"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction", "Russians", "Intellectual life", "Economic conditions", "Social conditions", "Translations into English", "Russian Humorous stories", "Fiction, humorous, general", "Fiction, short stories (single author)", "Soviet union, fiction"], "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": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T23:40:55.590169"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-01-31T06:38:56.609340"}}