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Nikolai Gogol
Inspector-General
A Comedy in Five Acts

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Although it may read to modern audiences like a hilarious slapstick comedy, The Inspector-General is actually much more than that. Famed Russian writer Nikolai Gogol intended it to be a veiled but pointed satire of the ineptitude, corruption, and greed that exemplified the Russian bureaucracy in the nineteenth century. The witty play was later used as the basis for a movie version starring Danny Kaye (1949).

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 123 ● ISBN 9781775451556 ● Translator Thomas Seltzer ● Publisher The Floating Press ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2415714 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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