Nikolai Gogol Plays And Petersburg Tales
by Nikolai Gogol
from Oxford University Press, USA
This volume brings together Gogol's Petersburg Tales with his two most famous plays, all of which guide us through the streets of St. Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes of the Neva estuary. Something of the deception and violence of the city's creation seems to lurk beneath its harmonious facade, however, and it confounds its inhabitants with false dreams and absurd visions. This new translation by Christopher English brings out the unique vitality and humor of Russia's finest comic writer.
The Theater of Nikolay Gogol
The Government Inspector (Oberon Classics)
by Nikolai Gogol
from Oberon Books
A classic text used at all levels of academic theatre studies.
Gogol: Three Plays: The Government Inspector, Marriage, and The Gamblers (Methuen World Classics)
by Nikolai Gogol
from A&C Black
This collection contains Gogol's three completed plays: The Government Inspector, Marriage, and The Gamblers.
The Government Inspector, which satirizes a corrupt society, was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely studied in schools and universities:
"I resolved to gather into one heap everything that was bad in Russia which I was aware of at that time, all the injustices being perpetrated in those places, and in those circumstances that especially cried out for justice, and tried to hold them all up to ridicule, at one fell swoop."-Nikolai Gogol
Marriage is a comedy about the business of matchmaking and matrimony; The Gamblers is an excoriating piece about the excesses of the Moscow aristocracy.
"Two and two make five, if not the square root of five, and it all happens quite naturally in Gogol's world ... Gogol was a strange creature, but, then, genius is always strange."-Vladimir Nabokov
Diary of a Madman (Bank of Montreal Stratford Festival)
by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio)
This 19th-century author created "some of the most colorful and haunting fiction of his century" (Kirkus Reviews). And with his special blend of comedy, social commentary, and fantasy, he paved the way for Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.
Four Russian Plays (The Penguin Classics)
Gogol: Plays and Selected Writings (European Drama Classics)
by Nikolai Gogol
from Northwestern University Press
Gogol: The Government Inspector (Russian Texts)
by Nikolai Gogol
from Duckworth Publishers
Gogol: Nevsky Prospect (Russian Texts)
by Nikolai Gogol
from Duckworth Publishers
Inspector General (Language - Russian)
by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
from NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
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