Twelve plays

By:

Chekhov, Anton [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.Description: xvi, 372 pISBN:

0192828134
9780192828132

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

891.72 CHE

Contents:

On the high road -- Swan song -- The bear -- The proposal -- Tatyana Repin -- A tragic role -- The wedding -- The anniversary -- Smoking is bad for you -- The night before the trial -- The wood-demon -- Platonov.

Summary: "Vaudeville subjects gush out of me like oil from the wells of Baku." Thus Chekhov once expressed his relish for writing the short one-act farces which (together with two longer plays) form this collection, written during the period when Chekhov was producing more serious prose fiction.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Lending Books	Main Library Stacks	Reference	891.72 CHE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		002164

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Translated from the Russian.

On the high road --
Swan song --
The bear --
The proposal --
Tatyana Repin --
A tragic role --
The wedding --
The anniversary --
Smoking is bad for you --
The night before the trial --
The wood-demon --
Platonov.

"Vaudeville subjects gush out of me like oil from the wells of Baku." Thus Chekhov once expressed his relish for writing the short one-act farces which (together with two longer plays) form this collection, written during the period when Chekhov was producing more serious prose fiction.

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