Three Sisters

<p><I>Three Sisters</I> (1900) is a drama in four acts by Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901 directed by acclaimed actor Konstantin Stanislavski-who also played the role of Aleksandr Ignatyevich Vershinin a philosophizing artillery officer in love with middle Prozorov sister Masha. Reviews were mixed at first but as the play continued to run <I>Three Sisters</I> became a popular success acclaimed by audiences and critics alike.</p><p>The play follows the Provorov family focusing on sisters Olga Masha and Irina as well as their brother Andrei. Each character struggles to balance their secret ambitions while facing the daily circumstances of reality. Olga the oldest sister is an unmarried schoolteacher who often finds herself responsible for the lives and happiness of others. Masha the middle sister is unhappily married to the kind Latin teacher Fyodor Kulygin who knows about her affair with Lieutenant-Colonel Vershinin but continues to love and care for her. Irina the youngest is a vain and childish woman engaged to a man she respect but does not love. Andrei is initially an ambitious and energetic young man whose ill-fated marriage ruins not only his prospects of becoming a professor in Moscow but his will to live as a man with any sense of self-respect. Natasha who begins as an orphaned young woman unfit for high society eventually emerges as a manipulative envious woman whose love for her two children is matched only by her will to control the lives of the entire Prozorov family. <I>Three Sisters</I> by Anton Chekhov is a brilliant drama whose complex characters make us believe for a time in an art more real than life.</p><p>With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript this edition of Anton Chekhov's <I>Three Sisters</I> is a classic of Russian literature reimagined for modern readers.</p>