Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, and Selected Stories

Nikolai Gogol, Ronald Wilks (Translator); Robert A. Maguire (Introduction by);

Author, dramatist and satirist, Nikolai Gogol deeply influenced later Russian literature with his powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty bureaucracy and base corruption. This volume includes both his most admired short fiction and his most famous drama. A biting and frequently hilarious pol...