Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories
The Government Inspector and Selected Stories
$24.30
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
10 January 2006
Summary
The best of Gogol in a single volume - his most famous drama and the most brilliant of his short stories.
Author, dramatist and satirist, Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) deeply influenced later Russian literature with his powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty bureaucracy and base corruption. This volume includes both his most admired short fiction and his most famous drama.
A biting and frequently hilarious political satire, The Government Inspector has been p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140449075 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140449078 |
| Author: | Nikolay Gogol, Robert Maguire, Ronald Wilks |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 10 January 2006 |
| Weight: | 268g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 130mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Nikolay Gogol
Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) was born in the Ukraine and left for St Peterburg at the age of 19 where he published a collection of short stories and for a short time held the post of professor of history at the university. Gogol’s experience of life in St Petersburg informed his savagely satirical play, The Government Inspector, and a series of brilliant short stories including Nevsky Prospekt and Notes of a Madman. From 1836 to 48, Gogol lived abroad, mainly in Rome, where he was working on his comic epic Dead Souls - a work he wrestled with for the rest of his life before renouncing literature and burning parts of the manuscript shortly before he died.
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