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The Government Inspector
Nikolai Gogol
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Description for The Government Inspector
Paperback. The ever-topical satire of small-town corruption and cravenness. Series: Drama Classics S. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 108 x 7. Weight in Grams: 100.
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A classic satire of provincial bureaucracy, which only saw the stage after the personal intervention of Tsar Nicholas I.
A small, corrupt Russian town receives a letter informing them of the imminent visit of a government inspector travelling incognito. When a passing civil servant is mistaken for the inspector, panic soon sets in.
This English version of Nikolai Gogol's play The Government Inspector, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.
Product Details
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Series
Drama Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
123
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854591746
SKU
V9781854591746
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3
About Nikolai Gogol
Stephen Mulrine (1937–2020) was a Glasgow-born poet and playwright who wrote extensively for radio and television, and published many translations, including English translations of plays in Russian by Chekhov, Gogol and Gorky, as well as translations of plays by Ibsen, Molière, Pirandello, Strindberg and others.
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