Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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.
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
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...
52) The duel
Author
Series
Publisher
The Modern Library
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
First published in 1891, this morality tale pits a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician against one another in a verbal battle of wits and ethics that explodes into a violent contest: the duel. When Laevsky, a lazy youth who works for the government, tires of his dependent mistress, Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, Von Koren, the scientist, delivers a scathing critique of Loevskys egotism, forcing the young man to examine his...
