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The Government Inspector

Author
Nikolai Gogol
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
92 pages
ISBN
9781910150504
Published
15 January 2014
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Gogol
  • satire
  • humour
  • play
  • comedy
  • comedy of errors
  • greed
  • historical
  • drama

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Description

A corrupt Russian provincial town panics when an undercover government inspector arrives. Officials mistake a penniless visitor from St. Petersburg named Khlestakov for the high-ranking official. Khlestakov accepts bribes and flirts with the mayor's family before fleeing. Nikolai Gogol’s sharp satirical masterpiece exposes human greed, profound stupidity, and systemic corruption in a brilliant comedy of errors.

Author

Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) was the master of a satire so quiet it can seem harmless — until the ground shifts beneath it. In Dead Souls he mapped the hollow soul of imperial Russia with comic precision; in The Overcoat and The Nose he turned ordinary clerks and missing body parts into fables of humiliation, obsession, and bureaucratic nightmare.

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