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The Three Sisters - (Dover Thrift Editions) by Anton Chekhov (Paperback)

The Three Sisters - (Dover Thrift Editions) by  Anton Chekhov (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>One of Chekhov's most powerful plays probes the lives and dreams of Olga, Masha and Irina, former Muscovites now living in a provincial town from which they long to escape.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, <i>The Three Sisters</i> probes the lives and dreams of Olga, Masha, and Irina, former Muscovites now living in a provincial town from which they long to escape. Their hopes for a life more suited to their cultivated tastes and sensibilities provide a touching counterpoint to the relentless flow of compromising events in the real world.<br>In this powerful play, a landmark of modern drama, Chekhov masterfully interweaves character and theme in subtle ways that make the work's climax seem as inevitable as it is deeply moving. It is reprinted here from a standard text with updated transliteration of character names and additional explanatory footnotes.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>The play focuses on the lives of three sisters, Olga, Masha, and 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, and lovers, all of whom constitute a distractions from the passage of time and from the sisters' desire to return to their beloved Moscow.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Next to Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is the most popular playwright in the English-speaking world. The Russian physician also wrote a series of remarkable short stories, in which he pioneered the stream-of-consciousness narrative technique.<br><p> </p>

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