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  • The Storm

    by Alexander Ostrovsky ...
    Translated by Constance Garnet ...
    Classic Russian play, the best-known work of Alexander Ostrovsky. According to the introduction, "ALEXANDER NIKOLAYEVICH Ostrovsky (1823-86) is the great Russian dramatist of the central decades of the nineteenth century, of the years when the realistic school was all-powerful in Russian literature, of the period when Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy created a literature of prose fiction that ... Read more

    $1.55 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Larisa and the Merchants

    by Alexander Ostrovsky ...
    Translated by Samuel Adamson ...
    The Value of Something is Never its PriceIn a trading town on the banks of the river, penniless Larisa is desperate to marry and escape heartbreak and humiliation. But in this brutal world of transactions true love has no worth. Larisa is up for sale and the local merchants want a bargain.Samuel Adamson's version of Alexander Ostrovsky's rarely seen, sharp and darkly funny play Larisa and the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Storm

    by Alexander Ostrovsky ...
    Classic Russian play, the best-known work of Alexander Ostrovsky. According to the introduction, "ALEXANDER NIKOLAYEVICH Ostrovsky (1823-86) is the great Russian dramatist of the central decades of the nineteenth century, of the years when the realistic school was all-powerful in Russian literature, of the period when Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy created a literature of prose fiction that ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Without a Dowry and Other Plays

    by Alexander Ostrovsky ...
    A collection of plays from one of Russia's most important writers of the 19th century.Translated from the Russian and with an Introduction by Norman HenleyA contemporary of Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy and precursor to Chekhov, Alexander Ostrovsky was a keen sociological observer, often exposing abuses of power, landing him in trouble with the censors again and again. He wrote forty-seven ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Four Plays

    by Alexander Ostrovsky ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Includes the plays The Forest, Artistes and Admirers, Wolves and Sheep and Sin and SorrowFour of Ostrovskys finest plays. The best known of these, The Forest (1871), has two young lovers in thrall to their tyrannical elders, who are prevented from marrying until a pair of strolling actors come to their rescue. In Artistes and Admirers (1881), a comedy of theatre life, a dedicated young actress ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Ostrovsky: Plays Two

    The Forest; Artistes & Admirers; Wolves & Sheep; Sin & Sorrow; The Power of Darkness

    by Alexander Ostrovsky ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Includes the plays The Forest, Artistes and Admirers, Wolves and Sheep and Sin and SorrowFour of Ostrovsky’s finest plays. The best known of these, The Forest (1871), has two young lovers in thrall to their tyrannical elders, who are prevented from marrying until a pair of strolling actors come to their rescue. In Artistes and Admirers (1881), a comedy of theatre life, a dedicated young actress ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Sin and Sorrow are Common to All

    A Drama in Four Acts

    by Alexander Ostrovsky, George Rapall Noyes ...
    Narrated by Robert Curran, Marty Krz, Amy Soakes, Vee McGuire, Denis Daly, Grace Keller Scotch, John Burlinson ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 13 min

    Sin and Sorrow are Common to AllA Drama in Four ActsBy Alexander OstrovskyTranslated by George Rapall NoyesA central theme of Ostrovsky's plays is the inevitablestruggle between the demands of personal moralityand and those dictated by social propriety.In this grim drama the dramatist sketches a tragic incidentarising from the conflict of two social classes, the pettytradesmen and the nobility. ... Read more

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  • Fifty-Two Stories

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov: a lavish volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time.Anton Chekhov left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their renderings of fifty ... Read more

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    Translated by Henry Carlisle, Olga Carlisle ...
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  • Three Sisters

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    "Three Sisters" is Anton Chekhov's dramatic play written in 1900 and first performed in 1901. The story concerns the lives of an aristocratic family, the Prozorovs, who struggle to search for meaning in the modern world. The three sisters, Olga, Masha, and Irina, along with their brother Andrei, are living in a small provincial town, yet they long to return to the urban sophistication of Moscow ... Read more

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