A Month in the Country

by Ivan Turgenev

Overview

A half comic, poignant drama about the destructive powers of passion, in a superb translation by Emlyn Williams.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781531281489
Publisher:	Charles River Editors
Publication date:	03/22/2018
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
Pages:	166
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Richard Nelson's many plays include The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country (That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, Sorry and Regular Singing); Nikolai and the Others; Goodnight Children Everywhere (Olivier Award for Best Play); Franny's Way; Some Americans Abroad; Frank's Home; Two Shakespearean Actors and James Joyce's The Dead (with Shaun Davey; Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical).

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have translated the works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Boris Pasternak and Mikhail Bulgakov. Their translations of The Brothers Karamozov and Anna Karenina won the PEN Translation Prize in 1991 and 2002, respectively. Pevear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsky, of St. Petersburg, are married and live in France.

Editorial Reviews

This adaptation's language, tone, personalities, and even themes are clearly Friel's...sharp...funny...a unique sound and compelling depth. Turgenev's classic is energized, more entertaining, fresher.

TheaterWeek

A MASTERLY TRIUMPH...sensitive...superlative...impeccable...

Irish Independent

...a marvelously rich evening of theatre...

Irish Times

...his lines have the rueful wit of a man who has seen much of the world and who shakes his head compassionately over how rarely any of its inhabitants achieve a finish worthy of their beginnings.

New Yorker

What a remarkable play!...It has all the freshness, that thrust of a new century's thought, which we associate with Chekhov or Gorky.

NY Post

A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY is a jewel of a play...

NY Times