Download or read book The Government Inspector and Other Works written by Nikolái Gogol and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2014-09-07 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government Inspector, also known as The Inspector General, is a satirical play by the Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol. The play is a comedy of errors, satirizing human greed, stupidity, and the extensive political corruption of Imperial Russia.