Chekhov: The Essential Plays: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters & The Cherry Orchard (Modern Library Classics)

The translation is good (very clear and it makes sense in English) and this edition includes a tiny bit of biographical information about Chekhov, plus (very helpful!) a guide to pronouncing Russian names.Enjoy!

A good translation of the plays. The book is approximately 5 1/4 by 8 1/4 . The size is comfortable to hold in your lap and theprint size is easy to read. The book has "The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters", and "The Cherry Orchard". There is a short biographyof Anton Chekhov at the beginning of the book.

This translation is very good. I'm removing a star because the footnotes don't work and I had to go back and forth manually between the text and the notes. That's a huge problem for a Kindle edition.

We utilized this book in my Stanislavski course to learn the methodology, and it was very helpful for this course. I appreciated that we could digest the plays together, as I may not have picked up the material on my own.

Purchased for my cast as a gift, following our production of "Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike". Everyone was thrilled. And I saved a copy for myself. What a fine, natural, act able translation!

Wonderful plays, highlight the mundane everyday struggles we all face.

A marvelous translation, far superior to others with which I compared it. "The Cherry Orchard" recently played in Santa Monica, and it was so fresh and relevant for today, yet retaining the feeling of the Russian 19th Century.

Great shape...like the edition. It seems like new..Good introduction before you get into the plays. Keep up the good workThanks.

This is superb deal!!!! I'm happy with this edition nice edit of the play. A must read