The Government Inspector - Modern Plays

The Government Inspector

The Government Inspector - Modern Plays

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Published: 14 March, 1985
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This is the poet and playwright Adrian Mitchell's version of Gogol's classic satire on human vanity with its story of a penniless nobody from Moscow who is mistaken for a government inspector by the corrupt and self-seeking officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia."The greatest artist that Russia has yet produced" Vladimir Nabokov
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780413584700
ISBN10 0413584704
Number Of Pages 112
Item Weight 123 g
Product Dimensions 126 x 202 x 7 mm
Publisher / Reseller Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format paperback
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Author's Bio

Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) won fame as a short story writer, and in 1836, his satirical comedy The Government Inspector created such a furore that Gogol left Russia to settle in Rome, in self-imposed exile. Religious mania in his later years contributed to his early death in Moscow.

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