The Government Inspector Comedy in Five Acts

The corrupt officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia mistake a penniless clerk from Moscow for a government agent in Gogol's satire on the grotesque side of human nature. A play described by Vladimir Nabokov as the greatest ever written in the Russian language. Includes text, notes, commentary and background. Nikolai Gogol (1809???1852) was the leader of the realist revolution in19th century Russian drama and literature. His plays include "Marriage "and "The Gamblers,"