The Government Inspector - Modern Plays
The Government Inspector - Modern Plays
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Published:
14 March, 1985
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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.