Three Sisters

Name: Three Sisters
Author: Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov, tradotto da Julius West

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Dramatis Personae

Andrey Sergeyevitch Prosorov
Natalia Ivanova (Natasha), his fiancée, later his wife (28)
Olga (28),
Masha (23),
Irina (20), his sisters
Feodor Ilitch Kuligin, high school teacher, married to Masha
Alexander Ignateyevitch Vershinin, lieutenant-colonel in charge of a battery (42)
Nicolai Lvovitch Tuzenbach, baron, lieutenant in the army (30)
Vassili Vassilevitch Soleni, captain
Ivan Romanovitch Chebutikin, army doctor (60)
Alexey Petrovitch Fedotik, sublieutenant
Vladimir Carlovitch Rode, sublieutenant
Ferapont, doorkeeper at local council offices, an old man
Anfisa, nurse (80)

The action takes place in a provincial town.

(Ages are stated in parentheses.)

Act I

In Prosorov’s house. A sitting-room with pillars; behind is seen a large dining-room. It is midday, the sun is shining brightly outside. In the dining-room the table is being laid for lunch.

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Dramatis Personae

Andrey Sergeyevitch Prosorov

Natalia Ivanova (Natasha), his fiancée, later his wife (28)

Olga (28),
Masha (23),
Irina (20), his sisters

Feodor Ilitch Kuligin, high school teacher, married to Masha

Alexander Ignateyevitch Vershinin, lieutenant-colonel in charge of a battery (42)

Nicolai Lvovitch Tuzenbach, baron, lieutenant in the army (30)

Vassili Vassilevitch Soleni, captain

Ivan Romanovitch Chebutikin, army doctor (60)

Alexey Petrovitch Fedotik, sublieutenant

Vladimir Carlovitch Rode, sublieutenant

Ferapont, doorkeeper at local council offices, an old man

Anfisa, nurse (80)

The action takes place in a provincial town.

(Ages are stated in parentheses.)

Il prossimo da leggere

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

You watch Gatsby stare at that green light across the bay and slowly realize the whole glittering party is built on wanting one thing he can't have. It's short, sad, and gorgeous sentence by sentence, best read in a couple of quiet sittings.

Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky, tradotto da Constance Garnett

You spend the novel inside Raskolnikov’s feverish, self-justifying mind, then watch Porfiry unravel him through oddly playful conversations. It’s bleak, morally serious, and sometimes deliberately repetitive, but the pressure feels real, especially beside Sonia’s quiet compassion.

The Time Machine H. G. Wells

The Time Traveller lands in the year 802,701 expecting a paradise, and what he finds among the childlike Eloi and the pale Morlocks underground gets stranger and sadder the longer he stays. It's short, brisk Victorian science fiction with a genuinely bleak streak, especially that final beach.