" "Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."-The New Yorker. There have always been two versions of Chekhov's masterwork: the one with which we are all familiar, as revised and staged by Konstantin Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, and th
The cherry orchard: a comedy in four acts
- Publisher
- Max Bollinger;Sovereign
- Year
- 2012
- Edition
- New edition
- Category
- Fiction
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