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    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Wood Demon’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Anton Chekhov’.

    Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Chekhov includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
    ISBN9781786569516
    The Wood Demon by Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)
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    Anton Chekhov

    Anton Chekhov was born in 1860 in Southern Russia and moved to Moscow to study medicine. Whilst at university he sold short stories and sketches to magazines to raise money to support his family. His success and acclaim grew as both a writer of fiction and of plays whilst he continued to practice medicine. Ill health forced him to move from his country estate near Moscow to Yalta where he wrote some of his most famous work, and it was there that he married actress Olga Knipper. He died from tuberculosis in 1904.

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      The Wood Demon by Anton Chekhov (Illustrated) - Anton Chekhov

      The Complete Works of

      ANTON CHEKHOV

      VOLUME 10 OF 24

      The Wood Demon

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2014

      Version 6

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘The Wood Demon’

      Anton Chekhov: Parts Edition (in 24 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78656 951 6

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: sales@delphiclassics.com

      www.delphiclassics.com

      Anton Chekhov: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 10 of the Delphi Classics edition of Anton Chekhov in 24 Parts. It features the unabridged text of The Wood Demon from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Anton Chekhov, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Anton Chekhov or the Complete Works of Anton Chekhov in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      ANTON CHEKHOV

      IN 24 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Plays

      1, Platonov

      2, On the High Road

      3, On the Harmfulness of Tobacco

      4, Swansong

      5, Ivanoff

      6, The Bear

      7, The Proposal

      8, A Reluctant Hero

      9, The Wedding

      10, The Wood Demon

      11, The Anniversary

      12, Uncle Vanya

      13, The Three Sisters

      14, The Cherry Orchard

      The Novel

      15, The Shooting Party

      The Short Stories

      16, The Complete Short Stories

      The Novellas

      17, The Steppe

      18, The Duel

      19, An Anonymous Story

      20, Three Years

      21, My Life

      The Non-Fiction

      22, Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends

      23, Note-Book of Anton Chekhov

      The Biography

      24, Biographical Sketch of Anton Chekhov by Constance Garnett

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      The Wood Demon

      A COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS

      Translated by S. S. Koteliansky

      The Wood Demon was written in 1888 and debuted in December 27,1889 at the Abramov Theater. The drama had been initially first refused by the Alexandrinsky Theatre of St. Petersburg and the Maly Theatre of Moscow. The failure of the play was one of the motivations for Chekhov’s journey through Siberia and why he abstained from writing another drama for the next seven years.

      Eight years after the failure of The Wood Demon, Chekhov returned to the work. He reduced the cast list by half, changed the climatic suicide into an anti-climax of a failed homicide, and published the reworked play, much more successfully, under the title Uncle Vanya.

      Anton Checkov and Olga Knipper, his wife, on their honeymoon

      CONTENTS

      CHARACTERS

      ACT I

      SCENE I

      SCENE II

      SCENE III

      SCENE IV

      SCENE V

      SCENE VI

      SCENE VII

      SCENE VIII

      SCENE IX

      ACT II

      SCENE I

      SCENE II

      SCENE III

      SCENE IV

      SCENE V

      SCENE VI

      SCENE VII

      SCENE VIII

      SCENE IX

      SCENE X

      ACT III

      SCENE I

      SCENE II

      SCENE III

      SCENE IV

      SCENE V

      SCENE VI

      SCENE VII

      SCENE VIII

      SCENE IX

      SCENE X

      SCENE XI

      SCENE XII

      SCENE XIII

      SCENE XIV

      SCENE XV

      SCENE XVI

      ACT IV

      SCENE I

      SCENE II

      SCENE III

      SCENE IV

      SCENE V

      SCENE VI

      SCENE VII

      SCENE VIII

      SCENE IX

      SCENE X

      SCENE XI

      SCENE XII

      CHARACTERS

      ALEXANDER VLADIMIROVICH SEREBRYAKOV (A RETIRED PROFESSOR)

      ELENA ANDREYEVNA (his wife, aged twenty-seven)

      SOPHIE ALEXANDROVNA (SONYA) (the professor’s daughter, by his first marriage, aged twenty)

      MARIE VASSILIEVNA VOYNITSKY (widow of a privy councillor, the mother of the professor’s first wife)

      GEORGE PETROVICH VOYNITSKY (her son)

      LEONID STEPANOVICH ZHELTOUKHIN (a wealthy young man who has studied technology at the university)

      YULIA STEPANOVNA (JULIE) (his sister, aged eighteen)

      IVAN IVANOVICH ORLOVSKY (a landowner)

      FYODOR IVANOVICH ORLOVSKY (his son)

      MIKHAIL LVOVICH KHROUSCHOV (the Wood Demon) (a landowner who holds the degree of doctor of medicine)

      ILYA ILYICH DYADIN

      VASSILI (ZHELTOUKHIN’S man-servant)

      SEMYON (a labourer employed at DYADIN’S flour mill)

      ACT I

      The garden of ZHELTOUKHIN’S estate. The manor house with a terrace; in front of the house, on a platform, there are two tables; the large table is set for lunch; on the smaller table are placed zakouski (hors-d’oeuvres). Time: A little after two o’clock.

      SCENE I

      ZHELTOUKHIN and JULIE come out of the house

      JULIE: You’d better put on your grey suit. This one does not become you.

      ZHELTOUKHIN: It doesn’t matter. Nonsense.

      JULIE: Lennie dear, why are you so dull? How can you be like that on your birthday? You are naughty! . . .

      (Laying her head on his chest.)

      ZHELTOUKHIN:’ No sentiment, please!

      JULIE (through tears): Lennie!

      ZHELTOUKHIN: Instead of all these sour kisses, all these loving glances, and little shoes as watch-stands, which are no damned use to me, you’d better do what I ask you to do! Why didn’t you write to the Serebryakovs?

      JULIE: Lennie, but I did write!

      ZHELTOUKHIN: Whom did you write to?

      JULIE: I wrote to Sonya. I asked her to come to-day without fail, without fail at one o’clock. Honestly, I wrote to her!

      ZHELTOUKHIN: And yet it is past two now, and they’re not here. Still, no matter! I don’t care! I must give it all up, nothing is to come of it... Only humiliations, and a rotten feeling, and nothing else... She doesn’t take the slightest interest in me. I’m not good-looking, I’m uninteresting, there’s nothing romantic about me, and if she were to marry me, it could only be out of calculation ... for the sake of money!

      JULIE: Not good-looking! . . . You’ve a wrong opinion of yourself.

      ZHELTOUKHIN: Oh, yes, as if I were blind! My beard grown from there, from the neck, not as beards should grow. . . My moustache, damn it . . . and my nose . . .

      JULIE: Why do you press your cheek?

      ZHELTOUKHIN: It aches again under the eye.

      JULIE: It is a tiny bit swollen. Let me kiss it, and it will go.

      ZHELTOUKHIN: That’s silly!

      ENTER ORLOVSKY AND VOYNITSKY.

      SCENE II

      THE SAME, ORLOVSKY AND VOYNITSKY

      ORLOVSKY: Ducky, when are we going to have our lunch?  It’s past two!

      JULIE: Godpa dear, the Serebryakovs haven’t come yet!

      ORLOVSKY: How long have we to wait then? I want to eat, my sweet. George, too, wants his lunch.

      ZHELTOUKHIN (to VOYNITSKY): Are your people coming?

      VOYNITSKY: When I left, Elena Andreyevna was dressing.

      ZHELTOUKHIN: They’re coming for certain then?

      VOYNITSKY: You can never be certain. Our general may suddenly imagine he has got an attack of the gout, or some other caprice — and then they will stop at home.

      ZHELTOUKHIN: In that case let’s start. What’s the use of waiting? (Shouting) Ilya Ilyich! Serguey Nikodimych!

      Enter DYADIN and two or three guests.

      SCENE III

      The same, DYADIN and the guests

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