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Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya

Chekhov, Anton

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ISBN10: 1419191802
ISBN13: 9781419191800
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Jun 17 2004
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.13 Width: 7.48 Depth: 9.18
Language: English
Uncle Vanya is a play written by Anton Chekhov that was first published in 1897. The play is set on a rural estate in Russia and explores the lives of the estate's inhabitants. The title character, Uncle Vanya, is a middle-aged man who has spent his entire life working on the estate and caring for his sister's husband, a famous professor who has come to live on the estate with his young wife. Vanya is disillusioned with his life and feels that he has wasted his potential. The professor's arrival sets off a chain of events that leads to a series of emotional confrontations between the characters. The play deals with themes of unrequited love, regret, and the struggle to find meaning in life. Chekhov's writing style is known for its realism and understated emotion, and Uncle Vanya is considered one of his greatest works.MARINA. [Shaking her head] This house is topsy-turvy! The Professor gets up at noon, the samovar is kept boiling all the morning, and everything has to wait for him. Before they came we used to have dinner at one o'clock, like everybody else, but now we have it at seven. The Professor sits up all night writing and reading, and suddenly, at two o'clock, there goes the bell! Heavens, what's that? The Professor wants some tea! Wake the servants, light the samovar! Lord, how topsy-turvy!This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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