The Cherry Orchard: A Comedy in Four Acts

The Cherry Orchard: A Comedy in Four Acts by Anton Chekhov and translated, with an Introduction, by Julius West. The Cherry Orchard is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Written in 1903, it was first published by Znaniye (1904). The play opens in the early morning hours of a cool day in May in the nursery of Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya's ancestral estate, somewhere in the provinces of Russia just after the turn of the 20th Century. Ranevskaya has been living with an unnamed...