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The Government Inspector

(1836)
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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 the corrupt and self-seeking officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia.

"The greatest artist that Russia has yet produced" Vladimir Nabokov


Genre: Mystery

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