Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series
By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (translated by Julius West)
Cover: Evening Bells (1892), oil on canvas by Isaac Levitan (1860-1900) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1900)
Eight of Chekhov's plays, from the one-act farces The Proposal, The Wedding, The Bear and The Anniversary to the full-length The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. The sisters long for Moscow while their lives slip by in a provincial town, and a family loses its orchard to a merchant's axe.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.