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His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his. Ivanov, the seagull, uncle vanya, three sisters, and the cherry orchard. Along the way they meet an extraordinarily colorful array of characters, named and nameless. He described the russian life of his time using a deceptively simple technique devoid of obtrusive literary devices, thereby becoming the prominent representative of the late nineteenthcentury russian realist school. Among other things they had talked of capital punishment. These critically hailed translations of the seagull, uncle vanya, the three sisters and the other chekhov plays are the only ones in english by a russianlanguage. May 04, 2005 the stories of anton chekhov paperback may 4, 2005 by anton chekhov author, robert n.
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