Name: The Three Sisters
ISBN: 9780486157528

Anton Chekhov

One of Chekhov's most powerful plays probes the lives and dreams of Olga, Masha and Irina, former Muscovites now living in a provincial town from which they long to escape.

The Three Sisters

Rebecca Harwood

It goes without saying that you cannot conquer the 

s round you; little by little, as you go on living, you'll be lost in the crowd. You'll have to give in to it. Life will get the better of you, but still you'll not disappear without a trace. After you there may appear perhaps six like you, then twelve and so on until such as you form a majority. In two or three hundred years, life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, marvellous. Man needs such a life and, though he hasn't got it yet, he must have a presentiment of it, expect it, dream of it, prepare for it; for that he must see and know more than his father and grandfather [

]. And you complain of knowing a great deal that's unnecessary.

jack

really good, interesting development of chekhov’s concern with what there is to live for. starting to get chekhov fatigue so i’m going to put off reading the cherry orchard for a little bit

Ibragimova Renata

Francisco Costa

Belle

Ilja Panic

Philip Seifi

Molly Phillips

Akanksha Chattopadhyay

Tijana Kovac

Theodora Pantelich

David Mamet

Somewhere in the backwoods of Russia, the three Prozorov sisters--Olga, Masha and Irina--live in the large, beautiful house their father has left them. Raised to be bastions of refinement and taste, but stranded amongst smalltown folk with no ambition, they cling desperately to memories of the bright, thriving Moscow they left as children. Unable to bear the ordinariness of their lives, tempers flare and all manner of appetites go unchecked, eliciting wild and dangerous responses from those around them and turning the proper Prozorov home into a place where anything can happen.

The Three Sisters

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