by Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Turgenev · Dover Publications · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780486434728
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This anthology brings together masterpieces by four great writers from the golden age of Russian theater. It includes Gogol's 'The Inspector General,' a satire on the corruption of officials; Chekhov's 'The Cherry Orchard,' which portrays the end of the semi-feudal social order; Gorky's 'The Lower Depths,' a grim portrait of society on the eve of the Russian Revolution; and Turgenev's 'A Month in the Country,' which explores the absurdity of romantic love. This collection offers a deep and varied vision of 19th-century Russian society through its most prominent playwrights.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer. Widely considered one of the greatest writers of all time, 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 theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
