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    The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)
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    The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)

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    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Cherry Orchard’ 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
    ISBN9781786569554
    The Cherry Orchard 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 Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (Illustrated) - Anton Chekhov

      The Complete Works of

      ANTON CHEKHOV

      VOLUME 14 OF 24

      The Cherry Orchard

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2014

      Version 6

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘The Cherry Orchard’

      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 955 4

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      Anton Chekhov: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 14 of the Delphi Classics edition of Anton Chekhov in 24 Parts. It features the unabridged text of The Cherry Orchard 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 Cherry Orchard

      Translated by Julius West, 1916

      Chekhov’s last play, now widely regarded as his masterpiece, The Cherry Orchard premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre in January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended the play to be a comedy, containing elements of farce and humour. However, Stanislavski insisted on directing the play as a tragedy. Since the initial production, directors have had to contend with the dual nature of the drama.

      The play concerns an aristocratic Russian woman and her family as they return to the family’s estate, with a large and well-known cherry orchard, just before it is auctioned to pay the mortgage. Though presented with options to save the estate, the family essentially does nothing and the play ends with the estate being sold to the son of a former serf and the family leaving to the sound of the cherry orchard being cut down. The story presents themes of cultural futility — both the futility of the aristocracy to maintain its status and the futility of the bourgeoisie to find meaning in its newfound materialism. In reflecting the socio-economic forces at work in Russia at the turn of the 20th century, including the rise of the middle class after the abolition of serfdom and the sinking of the aristocracy, the play reflects forces at work around the globe in that period.

      There were several experiences in Chekhov’s own life that are said to have directly inspired his writing of The Cherry Orchard. When Chekhov was sixteen, his mother went into debt after being cheated by some builders she had hired to construct a small house. A former lodger, Gabriel Selivanov, offered to help her financially, but secretly bought the house for himself. At approximately the same time, Chekov’s childhood home in Taganrog was sold to pay off its mortgage. These financial and domestic upheavals imprinted themselves on his memory greatly and would reappear in the action of the famous play.

      Since the first production at the Moscow Art Theatre, The Cherry Orchard has been translated and adapted into many languages and produced in many theatres across the world, becoming a classic work of dramatic literature. Some of the major directors of theatre have directed this drama, each interpreting the work differently. Some of these directors include Charles Laughton, Peter Brook, Andrei Serban, Eva Le Gallienne, Jean-Louis Barrault, Tyrone Guthrie and Giorgio Strehler.

      Chekhov with Leo Tolstoy at Yalta, 1900

      CONTENTS

      CHARACTERS

      ACT ONE

      ACT TWO

      ACT THREE

      ACT FOUR

      CHARACTERS

      LUBOV ANDREYEVNA RANEVSKY (Mme. RANEVSKY), a landowner

      ANYA, her daughter, aged seventeen

      VARYA (BARBARA), her adopted daughter, aged twenty-seven

      LEONID ANDREYEVITCH GAEV, Mme. Ranevsky’s brother

      ERMOLAI ALEXEYEVITCH LOPAKHIN, a merchant

      PETER SERGEYEVITCH TROFIMOV, a student

      BORIS BORISOVITCH SIMEONOV-PISCHIN, a landowner

      CHARLOTTA IVANOVNA, a governess

      SIMEON PANTELEYEVITCH EPIKHODOV, a clerk

      DUNYASHA (AVDOTYA FEDOROVNA), a maidservant

      FIERS, an old footman, aged eighty-seven

      YASHA, a young footman

      A TRAMP

      A STATION-MASTER

      POST-OFFICE CLERK

      GUESTS

      A SERVANT

      The action takes place on Mme. RANEVSKY’S estate

      A scene from Act 3 of the first run — Moscow Art Theatre production

      ACT ONE

      [A room which is still called

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