# The Cherry Orchard - Paperback

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by **Anton Chekhov** (Author), **Michael Frayn** (Translator)

"Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive...will be acted again and again" (New Statesman)

In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces deeply rooted in history and the society in which they live. Their estate is hopelessly in debt and when urged to cut down their beautiful cherry orchard and sell the land for holiday cottages, they are confronted by an impossible decision. "At the time when The Cherry Orchard was written, the years before the revolution of 1905, Chekhov considered revolution in Russia irreversible and desirable." (Melchinger: Anton Chekhov)

### Author Biography

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) first turned to writing as a medical student at Moscow University, from which he graduated in 1884. Among his early plays were short monologues (_The Evils of Tobacco_, 1885), one-act farces such as _The Bear_, _The Proposal_ and _The Wedding_ (1888-89) and the 'Platonov' material, adapted by Michael Frayn as _Wild Honey_. The first three full-length plays to be stage, _Ivanov_ (1887), _The Wood Demon_ (1889) and _The Seagull_ (1896) were initially failures. But the Moscow Arts Theatre's revival of _The Seagull_ two years later was successful and was followed by his masterpieces, _Uncle Vanya_ (1889), _Three Sisters_ (1901), and _The Cherry Orchard_ in 1904, the year of his death.

**Number of Pages:** 96

**Dimensions:** 0.3 x 7.2 x 4.7 IN

**Publication Date:** October 27, 2008

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