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Translated by Constance Garnett / Contents: / The Schoolmaster / Enemies / The Examining Magistrate / Betrothed / From The Diary Of A Violent-Tempered Man / In The Dark / A Play / A Mystery / Strong Impressions / Drunk / The Marshals Widow / A Bad Business / In The Court / Boots / Joy / Ladies / A Peculiar Man / At The Barbers / An Inadvertence / The Album / Oh! The Public / A Tripping Tongue / Overdoing It / The Orator / Malingerers / In The Graveyard / Hush! / In An Hotel / In A Strange Land

Translated by Constance Garnett / Contents: / The Chorus Girl / Verotchka / My Life / At A Country House / A Father / On The Road / Rothschilds Fiddle / Ivan Matveyitch / Zinotchka / Bad Weather / A

IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, who had by then been a fortnight at Yalta, and so was fairly at home there, had begun to take an interest in new arrivals. Sitting in Verneys pavilion, he saw, walking on the sea-front, a fair-haired young lady of medium height, wearing a beret; a white Pomeranian dog was running behind her.

Translated By Constance Garnett / Contents: / The Horse-Stealers / Ward No. 6 / The Petchenyeg / A Dead Body / A Happy Ending / The Looking-Glass / Old Age / Darkness / The Beggar / A Story Without A Title / In Trouble / Frost / A Slander / Minds In Ferment / Gone Astray / An Avenger / The Jeune Premier / A Defenceless Creature / An Enigmatic Nature / A Happy Man / A Troublesome Visitor / An Actors End

"Uncle Vanya", Anton Chekhovs masterpiece of frustrated longing and wasted lives, was originally a much more conventional drama in its earlier incarnation. Previously known as "The Wood Demon", the play was rejected by two theatres before premiering in Moscow in December of 1889 to a very poor reception (it closed after three performances). Sometime between that date and 1896, Chekhov revised the play, altering it radically. Chekhovs "Uncle Vanya" explores the disruption and discontent of a small group of people in rural 19th century Russia, and since its publication has helped pave the way for many of the worlds finest contemporary playwrights.Uncle Vanya spends his time idling around the country estate of his brother-in-law, Serebryakov, a retired professor, in Russia, 1898. His sister (the professors wife) dead, Vanya indulges in a romantic malaise over Serebryakovs beautiful, young second wife, Yelena. Meanwhile Doctor Astrov, summoned to the estate to tend to the professors myriad imagined aches and pains, is also in love with the enigmatic Yelena and remains oblivious to the fact that Serebryakovs daughter, Sonya, yearns for him. Trouble develops when Serebryakov announces his plan to sell the estate (Vanya and Sonyas home) in order to invest the profits and make a fortune for himself and Yelena.

"The Seagull", performed in 1896 and published in Russia the following year as Chayka, is a slice-of-life drama by Anton Chekhov set in the Russian countryside at the end of the 19th century. The cast of characters is dissatisfied with their lives. Some desire love. Some desire success. Some desire artistic genius. No one, however, ever seems to attain happiness.Scholars have often said that Chekhovs plays are not plot driven. Instead, the plays are character studies designed to create a specific mood. Some critics view "The Seagull" as a tragic play about eternally unhappy people. Others see it as a humorous albeit bitter satire, poking fun at human folly.

And here comes the winning ticket! The numbers are When Ivan Dmitritch reads the newspapes, he sees that the winning numbers from the lottery are very much the same as his wifes ticket. They immediately start to daydream about all the things they can buy now and the life they are going to have from now on. And it is exactly because of this that they fail to notice the obvious problem. Enjoyable and amusing, "The Lottery Ticket" is one of those stories of Chekhov that can be grouped under the general "stories with a twist". A recommended read, by all means.

In the heat of summer, Sonya and her Uncle Vanya while away their days on a crumbling estate deep in the countryside, visited occasionally by the only local doctor Astrov.However, when Sonyas father, Professor Serebryakov, suddenly returns with his restless, alluring, new wife, declaring his intention to sell the house, the polite façades crumble and long-repressed feelings start to emerge with devastating consequences.Olivier Award-winner Conor McPhersons stunning adaptation of Anton Chekhovs masterpiece, Uncle Vanya, is a portrayal of life at the turn of the twentieth century, full of tumultuous frustration, dark humour and hidden passions. It premiered at the Harold Pinter Theatre in Londons West End in January 2020, directed by Ian Rickson.A film of the production, made by Sonia Friedman Productions/Angelica Films and shot on the stage of the Harold Pinter Theatre after the West End run was cut short due to the Covid-19 pandemic, was screened on BBC Four and went on to win the Theatre Award in the South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2021.

Tr.: Constance Garnett / Contents: / The Duel / Excellent People / Mire / Neighbours / At Home / Expensive Lessons / The Princess / The Chemists Wife

Translated by Constance Garnett / Contents: / The Party / Terror / A Womans Kingdom / A Problem / The Kiss / Anna On The Neck / The Teacher Of Literature / Not Wanted / Typhus / A Misfortune / A Trif

Translated by Constance Garnett / Contents / Love / Lights / A Story Without An End / Mari Delle / A Living Chattel / The Doctor / Too Early! / The Cossack / Aborigines / An Inquiry / Martyrs / The Lion And The Sun / A Daughter Of Albion / Choristers / Nerves / A Work Of Art / A Joke / A Country Cottage / A Blunder / Fat And Thin / The Death Of A Government Clerk / A Pink Stocking / At A Summer Villa

"Three Sisters", as all of Chekhovs most popular plays, was written near the end of his life, in 1900. "Three Sisters" was the first play that Chekhov wrote specifically for the Moscow Art Theatre, having experienced commercial success in his previous collaborations with the company, "The Seagull" and "Uncle Vanya".The play is set in a small, remote town dominated by an army base. The action takes place in the Prozorov family home over a span of several years. Born and bred in a thriving metropolis, the Prozorovs came to this small town when their father was made commander of the local army brigade. Now, the Prozorov family consists of four siblings: Olga, Masha, Andrei and Irina, the youngest. Three sisters and one brother.Both of the Prozorovs parents have died. The mother many years ago; the father precisely one year earlier, on Irinas 21st birthday. Irinas 22nd birthday is thus also the first anniversary of her fathers death. Old family friends and acquaintances drop in on the family to mark the occasion.Amongst the visitors is Colonel Vershinin, the new brigade commander, who has only recently arrived in town and becomes a spark of new potential, particularly for Masha. Each act of the play moves forward in time, charting five years in the life of the town, its soldiers, the Prozorov household and its three sisters.The characters of "Three Sisters" are outstanding examples of Chekhovian boredom, longing, and listlessness. The playwright portrays the sisters social aspirations with sensitivity and irony, using them as emblems of Russian middle-class pretensions and despair.

Dont be miserable, you wonderful woman; be a mermaid. Theres the ocean; throw yourself in. Fall in love with some poor mortal and drag him down with you. Astonish us! On an isolated country estate, Sonia and her Uncle Vanya are committed to a life of ceaseless toil. But when the ageing invalid Serebriakov and his bewilderingly beautiful young wife take up residence, a yearning envelops the household and disturbs the accustomed tedium. Friend and confidant Astrov grows lovelorn, Sonias heart breaks and even Vanya falls under the spell. And so they fight, bond, belittle, lament, make peace and contemplate the odd murder. Featuring sex, comedy and unbearable sadness in nineteenth-century Russia, this version of Anton Chekhovs Uncle Vanya was written and directed by Terry Johnson and opened at Hampstead Theatre, London, in November 2018. And having weathered the storm, whats left? My feelings for you; a few droplets on a window pane, catching the sun, running down a way, drying to nothing.

A striking version of Chekhovs classic play, by Charlotte Pyke, John Kerr and Joseph Blatchley, restoring to the play the cuts demanded by the Russian censor in 1896.In nineteenth-century rural Russia, an anxious young writer prepares the first performance of his new play for the two women in his life. The consequences are devastating, with everybody in love with the wrong person, and death hovering close by.Through both comedy and tragedy, Seagull explores lives that are precariously balanced between love and indifference, success and failure, hope and despair.This version of Anton Chekhovs The Seagull was first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2011.

- Idea for a story. A beautiful young girl lives by a lake all her life. She loves this lake. Shes happy and free, like that bird was once. Then a man comes along and for no reason at all... what do you think he does?- He destroys her. A story about how we make stories, a story about unrequited love, The Seagull is one of the great plays of the modern era. Chekhov explores emotion and creativity with the clarity of a doctor and the heart of a poet. John Donnellys version of Anton Chekhovs The Seagull premiered in a Headlong and The Nuffield, Southampton co-production, in association with Derby Playhouse. The play opened in April 2013, followed by a UK tour.

Anton Chekhovs play Uncle Vanya in a new version by Christopher Hampton. This version will be first staged at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, on 25 October 2012 and run until 16 February 2013.Its often said that the best of the Chekhov plays is the one youve seen most recently. Uncle Vanya doesnt have a suicide, like The Seagull, or an adulterous couple and a duel more or less indistinguishable from murder, like Three Sisters; nor does it seem to announce the end of an era, like The Cherry Orchard: all it has is a series of ludicrously bungled attempts at murder and suicide and adultery. Perhaps these failures are what makes it feel the saddest and most truthful of these great tragi-comedies, in which, possibly unique to all drama, not a single word seems redundant or out of place. - From the authors introduction.

On a visit to a provincial town to see his sister Nina who is suffering from cancer, Alexei Laptev, who works for his father''s Moscow haberdashery business, falls in love with Yulia, the daughter of her doctor, and proposes to her. Although she does not reciprocate his feelings, she agrees to marry him and live with him in the capital, where the couple''s relationship is marred by tensions: Yulia is filled with regrets about her choice and boredom with her new existence, while Alexei is nagged by the suspicion that she married him for his money alone. However, as time passes and misfortune strikes, they both learn to reassess all of their assumptions.Chekhov''s second-longest prose work after The Steppe, Three Years is, in the author''s own words, a novel of Moscow life and an examination of its merchant classes. A powerful story of redemption and the nuances of human relationships, the novella helped cement Chekhov''s reputation as a major figure in Russian literature.

A collection of stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly and which intend to leave much to the reader s imagination

Incisive, masterfully written tales -- set in Tsarist Russian milieux -- reveal noted author's skills in character, nuance, and setting development. Includes "The Black Monk" (1894), "The House with the Mezzanine" (1896), "The Peasants" (1897), "Gooseberries" (1898), and "The Lady with the Toy Dog" (1899).