Presented in a new translation by Stephen Pimenoff, The Looking Glass is accompanied in this volume by other stories by Chekhov, some of them never translated before into English.
Michael Frayn s comedy of errors, drawn from Chekhov s untitled and posthumously discovered early play, is a tale of nineteenth-century Russian life replete with classic misunderstandings, irrepressible desires and nostalgia for a vanishing world."
A collection of five of Anton Chekhov’s best-known short plays, in brand new English translations.
‘The Willow’ is here accompanied by thirty-two other short stories – some of them never or rarely translated into English – which are representative of the three main phases of the author’s career.