The Inspector-General

✍ Scribed by Nikolai Gogol; Thomas Seltzer

• Book ID: 106977202
• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 58 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781775451556

✦ Synopsis

Although it may read to modern audiences like a hilarious slapstick comedy, The Inspector-General is actually much more than that. Famed Russian writer Nikolai Gogol intended it to be a veiled but pointed satire of the ineptitude, corruption, and greed that exemplified the Russian bureaucracy in the nineteenth century. The witty play was later used as the basis for a movie version starring Danny Kaye (1949).