Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Author
Publisher
Smith and Kraus
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
The play focuses on the lives of three sisters, Olga, Masha, Irina, young women of the Russian gentry who try to fill their days in order to construct a life that feels meaningful while surrounded by an array of military men, servants, husbands, suitors, andd lovers, all of whom constitute a distraction from the passage of time and from the sister's desire to return to their beloved Moscow.
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The 1899-1904 correspondence between the great Russian playwright and his leading lady, lover, and future wife reveal moods as kaleidoscopic as those portrayed in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Even after his early death from tuberculosis--with a theatrical final glass of champagne, Olga wrote imaginary letters to Anton at the onset of her 55 years of widowhood. No index. c. Book News Inc.
56) The seagull
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Aging actress Irina visits the country estate where her brother Sorin and her son Konstantin reside. She brings her lover Boris, a successful novelist. The estate teems with desire, jealousy and angst. The estate manager's daughter Masha is in love with Konstantin, who is in love with the sweet neighbor Nina, who is in love with Boris. Boris casually uses and discards Nina while Irina continuously treats Konstantin with similar disdain. Emotions...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1930]
Language
English
Description
The lead character is Mikhail Platonov, a disillusioned provincial schoolmaster. The play is set in a dilapidated country house in the Russian provinces. Landowner Anna Petrovna, Sofia Yegorovna, wife of Anna Petrovna's stepson, and one of his colleagues fall in love with the married Platonov. He thinks society is without ideas and principles, but is aware that he himself is very much part of that society. He is compared to Hamlet and Don Juan, and...
