{"product_id":"gogol-three-plays-the-government-inspector-marriage-and-the-gamblers-paperback","title":"Gogol: Three Plays: The Government Inspector, Marriage, and the Gamblers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNikolai Vasil'evich Gogol\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eStephen Mulrine\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eStephen Mulrine\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains Gogol's three completed plays \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Government Inspector, which satirises a corrupt society was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely studied in schools and universities: \"I resolved to gather into one heap everything that was bad in Russia which I was aware of at that time, all the injustices being perpetrated in those places, and in those circumstances that especially cried out for justice, and tried to hold them all up to ridicule, at one fell swoop.\" (Nikolai Gogol) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarriage is a comedy about the business of matchmaking and matrimony; The Gamblers is an exoriating piece about the excesses of the Moscow aristocracy.\"Two and two make five, if not the square root of five, and it all happens quite naturally in Gogol's world... Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange\" (Vladimir Nabokov)\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 7.98 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 05, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51775885345056,"sku":"9780413733405","price":47.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0e426744fcfc8d20ffaed931443a0554.webp?v=1780468445","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/gogol-three-plays-the-government-inspector-marriage-and-the-gamblers-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}