The Government Inspector (Oberon Book)

by JohnByrne (Translator), NikolaiVasilievichGogol (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.40

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $3.40

  In this ever-topical satire of small-town corruption and cravenness, bumbling and inefficient town officials are thrown into a panic when they learn that a Government Inspector is coming, perhaps incognito. When a well-dressed rogue arrives, he quickly realizes he is presumed to be the Inspector and takes advantage of the officials' dinners, bribes, etc. When the officials realize their mistake-just after the rogue leaves-the real Inspector arrives.

• New

  Paperback
  1985

  $16.78

  This is the poet and playwright Adrian Mitchell's version of Gogol's classic satire on human vanity with its story of a penniless nobody from Moscow who is mistaken for a government inspector by self-seeking officials in Tsarist Russia.