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The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Fiction
The corrupt officials of a small Russian town, headed by the Mayor, react with terror to the news that an incognito inspector (the revizor) will soon be arriving in their town to investigate them. The flurry of activity to cover up their considerable misdeeds is interrupted by the report that a suspicio ...Show more
The Government Inspector by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Drama Classics S.
Bumbling and inefficient town officials are thrown into a panic when they learn that a Government Inspector is coming, perhaps incognito. When a well-dressed rogue arrives, he realizes he is presumed to be the Inspector and takes advantage of the officials' dinners, bribes, etc. When the officials reali ...Show more
The Government Inspector and Other Works by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Gogol's works constitute one of Russian literature's supreme achievements, yet the nature of their brilliant originality, comic genius, and complex workings is difficult to summarize precisely. The Government Inspector, a perennial favourite on stage and screen, is considered a national institution in R ...Show more
The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Fiction | Series: PENGUIN CHRISTMAS CLASSICS
Gogol's classic, uproarious folktale, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift. Written in 1831, this dark tale relates the adventures of Vakula, the blacksmith, in his fight against the devil, who has stolen the moon above the village of Dikanka and is wreaking havoc on i ...Show more
The Nose by Ian (TRN) Nikolai Vasilevich; Dreiblatt Gogol
Category: Classics | Series: The Art of the Novella
The Nose: Four Corners Familiars by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Fiction | Series: Four Corners Familiars
The Nose and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Russian Library
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, t ...Show more
The Overcoat and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Gogol's stories are admired for their skillful mingling of fantasy and reality, quiet good humor and use of mundane details -- as Gogol put it -- "to extract the extraordinary from the ordinary." Imaginative and timeless, they remain as fresh and significant today as they were to readers generations ago ...Show more
The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich - (Annotated with Biography) by Nikolai Gogol; D. J. Hogarth (Translator)
Category: Classic
This story takes place in a bucolic small town of Mirgorod (Myrhorod in Ukrainian), written in the style featuring grotesque, realistic portrayals of the characters. The two Ivans are gentlemen landowners, neighbors and great friends, each one almost being the opposite image of the other. Ivan Ivanovich ...Show more