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Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories

The Government Inspector and Selected Stories

Author: Nikolay Gogol, Robert Maguire and Ronald Wilks   Series: Penguin Classics

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The best of Gogol in a single volume - his most famous drama and the most brilliant of his short stories.

Includes a selection of short fiction and famous dramas. This book includes stories ranging from comic to tragic and describes the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers.

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The best of Gogol in a single volume - his most famous drama and the most brilliant of his short stories.

Includes a selection of short fiction and famous dramas. This book includes stories ranging from comic to tragic and describes the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers.

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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 beaurocracy 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 popular since its first performance and was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest Russian play every written. The stories gathered here, meanwhile, range from comic to tragic and describe the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers. They include Diary of a Madman, an amusing but disturbing exploration of insanity; Nevsky Prospect, a depiction of an artist besotted with a prostitute; and The Overcoat, a moving consideration of poverty that powerfully influenced Dostoevsky and later Russian literature.

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About the Author

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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This expanded collection of influential Russian satirist Nikolay Gogols ingenious pieces now includes his most famous play.

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd | Penguin Classics
Published
1st December 2005
Edition
1st
Pages
368
ISBN
9780140449075

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