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Three Sisters

by Anton Chekhov

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The play focuses on the lives of three sisters, Olga, Masha, and Irina, young women of the Russian gentry who try to fill their days in order to construct a life that feels meaningful while surrounded by an array of military men, servants, husbands, suitors, and lovers, all of whom constitute a distractions from the passage of time and from the sisters' desire to return to their beloved Moscow.

First published: 1923 112 pages
Category
Literature
Priority
Must-Read
Author works
8
Language
eng
Subjects
Comedy playsContinental european drama (dramatic works by one author)Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)Country life -- Russia -- DramaDomestic dramaDramaDrama (dramatic works by one author)HistoryMoscow (Russia) -- Social life and customs -- DramaReadersRussia -- Social conditions -- DramaRussian dramaRussian languageSistersSisters -- Russia -- DramaTranslations into EnglishYoung women -- Russia -- Drama

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