This volume offers lively and accurate translations of Chekhov's
major plays and one-acts (complete contents listed below) along
with a superb Introduction focused on the plays' remarkably
enduring power to elicit the most widely divergent of responses,
the life of the playwright in its historical and aesthetic
contexts, suggestions for reading the plays under a microscope, and
notes designed to bring Chekhov's world into immediate
focus--everything needed to examine his drama with fresh eyes and
on its own artistic terms.