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$8.57The Story
by Anton Chekhov
This volume includes
- The Seagull, about the battle for power between a mother and her son which ends in tragedy
- Uncle Vanya tells of two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere, and a flirtation that brings disaster
- Three Sisters in which three siblings wrestle with their futures
- The Cherry Orchard where the old must inevitably give way to the new
Haunting and elusive, these four great late masterpieces have found in Michael Frayn a translator who perfectly captures their delicate balance of the tragic and the absurd. The volume also contains four of Chekhov's early short 'vaudevilles' as well as a substantial introduction by Michael Frayn.
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by Anton Chekhov
This volume includes
- The Seagull, about the battle for power between a mother and her son which ends in tragedy
- Uncle Vanya tells of two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere, and a flirtation that brings disaster
- Three Sisters in which three siblings wrestle with their futures
- The Cherry Orchard where the old must inevitably give way to the new
Haunting and elusive, these four great late masterpieces have found in Michael Frayn a translator who perfectly captures their delicate balance of the tragic and the absurd. The volume also contains four of Chekhov's early short 'vaudevilles' as well as a substantial introduction by Michael Frayn.
