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

by Nikolai Gogol

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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

Length:400 Pages

Weight:0.63 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.0" x 7.6"

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