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Uncle Vanya - Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts - cover

Uncle Vanya - Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Translator Marian Fell

Publisher: Ktoczyta.pl

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Summary

The story of a Russian family and their interfamily relations, in which there are jealousy, secret love cravings and the usual altercations that occur within a few days. The end of this play is the easiest prose ever written. Family in provincial Russia, which is getting closer to bankruptcy, many of whose members live in the past, unrequited love and breaking ties.
Available since: 04/26/2019.
Print length: 52 pages.

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