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A month in the country: a comedy in five acts

✍ Scribed by Ivan Turgenev

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Weight: 78 KB
Edition: First edition
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1559367814

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✦ Synopsis

"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."--The New Yorker

One week before her thirtieth birthday, the simple life of dutiful wife and mother Natalya is upended when the arrival of her son's charming new tutor unleashes a whirlwind of love, lust, and jealousy. This revelatory new translation by renowned playwright Richard Nelson along with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky--the foremost contemporary translators of classic Russian literature, including the best-selling Oprah's Book Club selection, Anna Karenina --marks the second of a series of translations of important Russian plays to be published over the next ten years.

Richard Nelson 's many plays include Rodney's Wife , Goodnight Children Everywhere , Drama Desk-nominated Franny's Way and Some Americans Abroad , Tony Award-nominated Two Shakespearean Actors , and _James Joyce's The...

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