Government Inspector (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback / softback)

Government Inspector (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback / softback)

The news that a government inspector is due to arrive in a small Russian town sends its bureaucrats into a panicked

Government Inspector (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

One of the most famous comedies in world theatre, Gogol's masterpiece has lost none of its bite. In a small town corruption is rife, and the Mayor and his cronies have got it made. So when they learn they are going to be subject to an undercover government inspection they panic. Mistaking a

Plays and Petersburg Tales: Petersburg Tales; Marriage; The Government Inspector (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

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

Nikolai Gogol (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since. His strange tales, though often read as forceful demands for social change, were displays of the fantasies of the human spirit. This book

The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Volume 1 (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

Nikolai Gogol was an artist who, like Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, and Sterne, knew how to walk upside down in our valley of sorrows so as to make it to a merry place. This two-volume edition at last brings all of Gogol's fiction (except his novel Dead Souls) together in paperback. Volume 1 includes

Collected Tales Of Nikolai Gogol (Gogol Nikolai Vasilievich)(Paperback / softback)

Collected here are superb new translations of the finest tales - from the founding master of Russian surreal allegory and

Dead Souls: New Translation - Nikolai Gogol

A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town andproceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual andsomewhat macabre proposition. He offers to buy the rights to the dead serfs who arestill registered on the landowner's estate, thus

MYSTERIOUS PORTRAIT(Paperback)

The Portrait is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, originally published in the short story collection Arabesques in 1835 and is one of Gogols' most demonic of tales, hinting at some of his earlier works such as 'St. John's

Dead Souls (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; the translation was hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as an extraordinarily fine

Gogol Collected Tales (Gogol Nikolai)(Pevná vazba)

Collected here are Gogol's finest tales - stories which combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller - allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way of Dostoevsky and

Dead Souls (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

One of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on

The Overcoat (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

From the Father of the Golden Age of Russian Literature, Nicolai Gogol's The Overcoat is one of the greatest short stories of all time. This satire on Russia's 19th century bureaucracy is amusing, pointed and has influenced many renowned Russian writers. Civil servant, Akakiy Akakievitch, is

The Night Before Christmas (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

It is the night before Christmas and devilry is afoot. The devil steals the moon and hides it in his pocket. He is thus free to run amok and inflicts all sorts of wicked mischief upon the village of Dikanka by unleashing a snowstorm. But the one he'd really like to torment is the town blacksmith,

Government(Paperback / softback)

Patrick O'Brian - A Very Private Life (Tolstoy Nikolai)(Paperback / softback)

An intimate portrait of Patrick O'Brian, written by his stepson Nikolai

Inspector Calls (Priestley J. B.)(Paperback / softback)

Inspector Calls - Dyslexia-Friendly Edition(Paperback / softback)

Directory of Northern Ireland Government(Paperback / softback)

Inspector Calls - A Play (Priestley J. B.)(Paperback / softback)

Two Treatises of Government (Locke John)(Paperback / softback)

Second Treatise of Government (Locke John)(Paperback / softback)

Inspector Calls AQA English Literature (Torn Cindy)(Paperback / softback)

Inspector Calls: Revision Guide for GCSE (Dalrymple Marcus)(Paperback / softback)

Inspector Calls - Large Print Edition (Priestley J. B.)(Paperback / softback)