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Author, dramatist and satirist, Nikolai Gogol 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 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.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking w

Table of Contents
The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, and Selected StoriesChronology
Introduction
Further Reading
Table of Ranks
Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt
How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich
Nevsky Prospekt
The Nose
The Overcoat
Diary of a Madman
The Carriage
The Government Inspector
Publishing History and Notes

Diary of a Madman The Government Inspector

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 1 December 2005
      ISBN-13 9780140449075
      978-0140449075
      ISBN-10 0140449078
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Author, dramatist and satirist, Nikolai Gogol 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 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.

      For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking w

      Table of Contents
      The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, and Selected StoriesChronology
      Introduction
      Further Reading
      Table of Ranks
      Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt
      How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich
      Nevsky Prospekt
      The Nose
      The Overcoat
      Diary of a Madman
      The Carriage
      The Government Inspector
      Publishing History and Notes

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