Plays and Petersburg Tales: Petersburg Tales; Marriage; The Government Inspector

by Nikolai Gogol

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199555060
• ISBN13: 9780199555062
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.6"