The Government Inspector And Other Works

Author : Nikolái Gogol
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781840227291
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Government Inspector and Other Works written by Nikolái Gogol and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2014-09-07 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government Inspector, also known as The Inspector General, is a satirical play by the Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol. The play is a comedy of errors, satirizing human greed, stupidity, and the extensive political corruption of Imperial Russia.

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571280501
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Government Inspector written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The news that a government inspector is due to arrive in a small Russian town sends its bureaucrats into a panicked frenzy. A simple case of mistaken identity exposes the hypocrisy and corruption at the heart of the town in this biting moral satire.David Harrower's version of Nikolai Gogol's Government Inspector premiered at the Warwick Arts Centre in May 2011 and transferred to Young Vic, London in June.

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408148617
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gogol Three Plays written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains Gogol's three completed plays The Government Inspector, which satirises a corrupt society was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely studied in schools and universities: "I resolved to gather into one heap everything that was bad in Russia which I was aware of at that time, all the injustices being perpetrated in those places, and in those circumstances that especially cried out for justice, and tried to hold them all up to ridicule, at one fell swoop." (Nikolai Gogol) Marriage is a comedy about the business of matchmaking and matrimony; The Gamblers is an exoriating piece about the excesses of the Moscow aristocracy. "Two and two make five, if not the square root of five, and it all happens quite naturally in Gogol's world... Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange" (Vladimir Nabokov)

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Pushkin Press Classics
ISBN 13 : 1805330330
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Pushkin Press Classics. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconic short stories from the Russian master of satire, in a strikingly modern translation "The most morally complete writer: baffled, outraged, reverent, mock-didactic, mocking, all at once. He honours life by feeling no one way about it." — George Saunders No writer has captured the absurdity of the human condition as acutely as Nikolai Gogol. In a lively new translation by Oliver Ready, this collection contains his great classic stories - "The Overcoat", "The Nose" and "Diary of a Madman" — alongside lesser known gems depicting life in the Russian and Ukrainian countryside. Together, they reveal Gogol's marvelously skewed perspective, moving between the urban and the rural with painfully sharp humour and scorching satire. Strikingly modern in his depictions of society's shambolic structures, Gogol plunders the depths of bureaucratic and domestic banalities to unearth moments of dark comedy and outrageous corruption. Defying categorisation, the stories in this collection range from the surreal to the satirical to the grotesque, united in their exquisite psychological acuteness and tender insights into the bizarre irrationalities of the human soul.

Author : Николай Васильевич Гоголь
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gamblers written by Николай Васильевич Гоголь and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231549067
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nose and Other Stories written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikolai Gogol’s novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol’s peculiar genius comes through most powerfully in his short stories. By turns—or at once—funny, terrifying, and profound, the tales collected in The Nose and Other Stories are among the greatest achievements of world literature. These stories showcase Gogol’s vivid, haunting imagination: an encounter with evil in a darkened church, a downtrodden clerk who dreams only of a new overcoat, a nose that falls off a face and reappears around town on its own, outranking its former owner. Written between 1831 and 1842, they span the colorful setting of rural Ukraine to the unforgiving urban landscape of St. Petersburg to the ancient labyrinth of Rome. Yet they share Gogol’s characteristic obsessions—city crowds, bureaucratic hierarchy and irrationality, the devil in disguise—and a constant undercurrent of the absurd. Susanne Fusso’s translations pay careful attention to the strangeness and wonder of Gogol's style, preserving the inimitable humor and oddity of his language. The Nose and Other Stories reveals why Russian writers from Dostoevsky to Nabokov have returned to Gogol as the cornerstone of their unparalleled literary tradition.

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408173638
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Government Inspector written by Nikolai Gogol and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into a small Pennine town a mysterious stranger is mistaken for a government inspector. Fearing discovery of their corrupt goings-on, the town's unscrupulous councillors attempt to ingratiate themselves. Bribes, backhanders and brown envelopes abound, and the young chap, who has an eye for a quick buck, takes full advantage with hilarious results.

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Alma Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781847493491
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Petersburg Tales: New Translation written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Alma Classics. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant façade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor (‘The Nose’), a painter and a lieutenant whose romantic pursuits meet with contrasting degrees of success (‘Nevsky Prospect’) and a lowly civil servant whose existence desperately unravels when he loses his prized new coat (‘The Overcoat’). Also including the ‘Diary of Madman’, these Petersburg Tales paint a critical yet hilarious portrait of a city riddled with pomposity and self-importance, masterfully juxtaposing nineteenth-century realism with madcap surrealism, and combining absurdist farce with biting satire.

Author : Николай Васильевич Гоголь
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5C/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Government Inspector written by Николай Васильевич Гоголь and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822204664
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Government Inspector written by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1972 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The corrupt, squabbling bureaucrats of a provincial Russian hamlet are suddenly shocked to learn that a Government Inspector is about to pay them a visit--incognito. In this panic they jump to the conclusion that a young stranger recently