Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, and Selected 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.

ISBN 0140449078   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780140449075 (What's this?)   Pages 368 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd   Volumes 1 Imprint Penguin Classics   Weight (grammes) 270 Format Paperback   Published in London Publication date 01 Dec 2005   Series title Penguin Classics Translator Ronald Wilks   Height (mm) 198 Writer of introduction Robert Maguire   Width (mm) 129 Library of Congress PG   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY 891.733   Academic level General

		Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and his aunt		3
		How Ivan Ivanovich quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich		29
		Nevsky Prospekt		78
		The nose		113
		The overcoat		140
		Diary of a madman		174
		The carriage		197
		The government inspector		211

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