Anton Chekhov

The Cherry Orchard

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Produktbeschreibung

The Cherry Orchard is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov Written in 1903. The play revolves around an aristocratic Russian land-owner who returns to her family estate (which includes a large and well-known cherry orchard) just before it is auctioned to pay the mortgage. Unresponsive to offers to save the estate, she allows its sale to the son of a former serf; the family leaves to the sound of the cherry orchard being cut down. The story presents themes of cultural futility both the futile attempts of the aristocracy to maintain its status and of the bourgeoisie to find meaning in its new-found materialism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SANAGE PUBLISHING HOUSE LLP
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 255g
• ISBN-13: 9789395741354
• ISBN-10: 939574135X
• Artikelnr.: 65986264

Autorenporträt

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 - 1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. 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 theater. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."