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Collected Plays of Anton Chekhov (Unabridged) - 12 Plays including On the High Road Swan Song Ivanoff The Anniversary The Proposal The Wedding The Bear The Seagull A Reluctant Hero Uncle Vanya The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard - cover

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Collected Plays of Anton Chekhov (Unabridged) - 12 Plays including On the High Road Swan Song Ivanoff The Anniversary The Proposal The Wedding The Bear The Seagull A Reluctant Hero Uncle Vanya The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard

Anton Chekhov

Translator Julian Hawthorne, Julius West

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“In each one of us there are too many springs, too many wheels and cogs for us to judge each other by first impressions or by two or three external indications.” Ivanoff, Act 3 (1887)
 
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 –1904) was a Russian physician, dramaturge and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov had at first written stories only for financial gain, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them.
 
Contents:
 
Introduction:
 
Biography of Anton Chekhov
 
Plays:
 
On the High Road
 
Swan Song
 
Ivanoff
 
The Anniversary
 
The Proposal  
 
The Wedding
 
The Bear
 
The Seagull  
 
A Reluctant Hero
 
Uncle Vanya 
 
The Three Sisters 
 
The Cherry Orchard
Available since: 06/01/2015.

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