<DIV><p>"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."?<I>The New Yorker</I></p><p>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, <I>Anna Karenina</I>. <I>The Inspector</I> marks the first in a series of translations of major works of Russian drama. Subsequent volumes already scheduled include <I>A Month in the Country</I> by Ivan Turgenev and The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov. This edition also includes an introduction and text notes by Richard Pevear.</p><p><B>Richard Nelson</B>'s many plays include <I>Rodney's Wife</I>, <I>Goodnight Children Everywhere</I>, Drama Desk–nominated <I>Franny's Way</I> and <I>Some Americans Abroad</I>, Tony Award–nominated <I>Two Shakespearean Actors</I>, and <I>James Joyce's The Dead</I> (with Shaun Davey), for which he won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.</p><p><B>Richard Pevear</B> and <B>Larissa Volokhonsky</B> have produced acclaimed translations of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov and Mikhail Bulgakov. Their translations of <I>The Brothers Karamazov</I> and <I>Anna Karenina</I> 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.</p></DIV>