The inspector

"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."-The New Yorker called "the greatest play written in Russian" by Vladimir Nabokov, Nikolai Gogol's comedy now has a revelatory new translation by renowned American playwright Richard Nelson and Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky, the foremost contemporary translators of classic Russian literature including the best-selling Oprah's Book Club selection, Anna Karenina. The Inspector marks the first in a series of translations of major works of Russian drama. Subsequent volumes already scheduled include A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev and The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov. This edition also includes an introduction and text notes by Richard Pevear.Richard Nelson's many plays include Rodney's Wife, Goodnight Children Everywhere, Drama Desk-nominated Franny's Way and Some Americans Abroad, Tony Award-nominated Two Shakespearean Actors, and James Joyce's The Dead (with Shaun Davey), for which he won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced acclaimed translations of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov and Mikhail Bulgakov. Their translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina won the 1991 and 2002 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prizes. Pevear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsky, of St. Petersburg, are married to each other and live in Paris"--