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    Curt Columbus loves actors and his new translations of Chekhov's four major plays are his gift to them. These are wonderfully actable, clear, and concise, and Columbus has perfectly captured Chekhov's unique blend of comic and tragic sensibilities.-Robert Falls, Artistic Director, Goodman Theatre.

    This powerful and revealing selection from Chekhov's final works, made by the legendary American critic Edmund Wilson, offers stories of novelistic richness and complexity, published in the only formatp edition to present them in chronological order.Table of Contents003 A Woman’s Kingdom (1894)053 Three Years (1895)161 The Murder (1895)199 My Life (1896)311 Peasants (1897)363 The New Villa (1899)383 In The Ravine (1900)433 The Bishop (1902)455 Betrothed (1903)