Chekhov: The Major Plays (Signet Classics)

Chekhov: The Major Plays (Signet Classics)
by Anton Chekhov

Chekhov: The Major Plays (Signet Classics)
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Author: Anton Chekhov
Translator: Robert Brustein
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-01-01
ISBN: 0451527763
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Signet Classics

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Book Review: human nature
Summary: 5 Stars

The five masterpieces in this collection deal with the dizzying pace of an industrializing world. Although the plays were written a hundred years ago, they are still very relevant to our modern existence. Chekov's questions about the place of class in a world in which class boundaries rapidly shift, the value of money in a world in which life has no meaning, and the meaning of existence in which experience is absurd still open our eyes to the many layers of existence which we uncover (or choose not to) every day.

In today's world, which, like Chekov's, is changing every day, it would behoove all of us to sit down for a while every day and ponder the infinite wisdom of "The Cherry Orchard" (which is in this collection) and try to understand ourselves.

Summary of Chekhov: The Major Plays (Signet Classics)

Newly repackaged, here are the five masterpieces by one of the world's greatest playwrights, in translation by Ann Dunnigan. As Robert Brustein declares in the foreword to this edition: "in the modern theater...there are none who bring the drama to a higher realization of its human role."

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