The General Inspector

This selection of works by Nikolai Gogol includes: The Inspector General play, which is considered one of the most important works of the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol; a satirical comedy first published in 1836. And the two plays: A Step and After the Presentation of a New Play. And his short stories: The Overcoat, The Nose, Nevsky Street, The Portrait, Diary of a Madman, The Carriage, and The Old Days Angels. Nikolai Gogol is a Russian writer considered one of the fathers of Russian literature. He was born on April 1, 1809. He was fond of reading books, especially Pushkin's writings, and he also memorized proverbs, famous sayings, Russian words with a special flavor, songs, and others. He benefited from all this in his collection of stories about Ukraine, and at school, he wrote a number of small works, composed many poems on various topics, and Gogol entered a new phase of self-education where he read Shakespeare, Goethe, and Schiller. Among his most famous works are the novel Dead Souls and his short story The Overcoat, in addition to the two comedic plays The Inspector General and Marriage. The story (The Overcoat) appeared in 1842 and was the last thing Gogol wrote and his most magnificent, and it was considered an important stage in the development of 19th-century realistic literature and a pioneer of modern short stories.