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Petersburg Tales, Marriage, the Government Inspector Free FREE PLAYS AND PETERSBURG TALES: PETERSBURG TALES, MARRIAGE, THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR PDF Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol,Christopher English,Richard Peace | 400 pages | 15 Jan 2009 | Oxford University Press | 9780199555062 | English | Oxford, United Kingdom Plays and Petersburg Tales by Nikolai Gogol Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please Plays and Petersburg Tales: Petersburg Tales now. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features Marriage our site. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. Home 1 Books 2. Add to Wishlist. Sign in to Purchase Instantly. Members save with free shipping everyday! See details. Overview This volume brings together Gogol's Petersburg Tales with his two most famous plays, all of which guide us through the streets of St. Petersburg, the Marriage erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes of the Neva estuary. Something of the deception and violence of the city's creation seems to lurk beneath its harmonious Plays and Petersburg Tales: Petersburg Tales, however, and it confounds its inhabitants with false dreams and absurd visions. This new translation by Christopher English brings out the unique vitality and humor of Russia's finest comic writer. About the Series: For over years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. 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Something of the deception and violence of the city's creation seems to lurk beneath its harmonious facade, however, and it confounds its inhabitants wit This volume brings together Gogol's Petersburg Tales with his two most famous plays, all of which guide us through the streets of St. Something of the deception and violence of the city's creation seems to lurk beneath its harmonious facade, however, and it confounds its inhabitants with false dreams and absurd visions. This new translation by Christopher English brings out the unique vitality Plays and Petersburg Tales: Petersburg Tales humor of Russia's finest comic writer. Get A Copy. PaperbackOxford World's Classicspages. Published June 10th by Oxford University Press first published More Details Original Title. Other Editions 5. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Plays and Petersburg Talesplease sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Plays and Petersburg Tales. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Plays and Petersburg Tales. I have never set foot in Saint Petersburg. I've never walked the long avenue called Nevsky Prospect or visited Senate Square or stood on the embankment gazing across the Neva to Vasilievsky Island. But I see those places in my mind's eye just as if I had been there. I know that the sky line of Vasilievsky Island is marked by the spire of the Peter and Paul fortress. I know that there's a huge bronze statue on The Government Inspector Square, and that there's a Scissors shop on Nevsky Prospect. Well, perhaps there I have never set foot in Saint Petersburg. Well, perhaps there's no longer a Scissors shop on Nevsky Prospect. You see, the city that the Government Inspector in my mind is not the city of today. My Petersburg Plays and Petersburg Tales: Petersburg Tales the city of Pushkin's Bronze Horseman, leaping from his plinth on Senate Square and racing through the nearby streets. It's the city of Gogol's Piskaryov, haunted by a girl he spies near the Scissors shop on Nevsky Prospect. It's the city of Nabokov's giant pencils and of Tolstoy's drunken bears tumbling into the Neva. It's the city of Dostoyevsky's axe murderer, of Gogol's razor-wielding barber, of Bely's scissors-happy assassin. It's the city where a Nose Marriage parade in uniform, where a ghost steals people's overcoats, where people have names like Pancake, Dustbin, Sloshkin and Rottenov. A city where dogs not only talk to each other but write letters too. A city where January comes after February and where April has 43 days and Marchember have My Petersburg is an utterly phantasmagoric place. I love it! View all 49 comments. Oct 02, Derek Shouba rated it it was amazing Shelves: russianth-century-novelsst-pete. Marriage heard of him. The plays Marriage great too. Gogol's stories present a world that is just far too strange to make any sense of it but you don't need necessarily need to, and I, for one, prefer it that way. The hilariously absurd characters and descriptions make for a laugh-out-loud read that will make you begin to wonder about the very world we ourselves know to be reality. Reading Gogol is pure pleasure, but at the same time so thought-provoking in terms of its underlying statements about perception and how much it relates to one's over Gogol's stories present a world that is just far too the Government Inspector to make the Government Inspector sense of it but you don't need necessarily need to, and I, for one, prefer it that way. Reading Gogol is pure pleasure, but at the same time Plays and Petersburg Tales: Petersburg Tales thought-provoking in terms of its underlying statements about perception and how much it relates to one's overall sense of existence in the world. 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