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Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov

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Author Biography

Name: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Birth Date: January, 1860
Death Date: July 2, 1904
Place of Birth: Taganrog, Russia
Place of Death: Badenweiler, Germany
Nationality: Russian
Gender: Male
Occupations: dramatist, author

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Biography of Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov
16764 words, approx. 55.9 pages
Anton Chekhov is today one of the most widely known authors of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Appreciated not only in Russia and the West but also in Asia, he was a master of the short story, and his innovations in the poetics of short prose fict...
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Biography of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
1915 words, approx. 6.4 pages
The Russian author Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) is among the major short-story writers and dramatists of modern times. During the last half of the 19th century the old order in Russia was crumbling. Political institutions were out of line with act...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Three Sisters Information
1,823 words, approx. 6 pages
Three Sisters (Russian: Три сестры - Tri sestry) is a play, written in 1900 and first produced in 1901, by Russian author Anton Chekhov, who wrote three other major...


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The Washington Post
From Ties That Bind Three Sisters, A Play Bound to Be Remembered
01/26/2006: 657 words, approx. 2 pages
One of the reasons for the enduring popularity of Wendy Wasserstein's play "The Sisters Rosensweig" is that it's still unusual, 13 years after its debut, to find so many indelible portraits of women in one work, even rarer to have them be 40 and...
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Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Sister act Three Neuqua siblings play in elite ensemble.(News)
10/26/2006: 357 words, approx. 1 pages
Byline: Sara Hooker Daily Herald Staff Writer If the Kohler sisters miss a day of high school, everybody in Neuqua Valley's wind ensemble notices. That's because Jennifer, Amy and Katherine Kohler are all members of the Naperville school's most elite musical group...
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AP News
Prominent horse owner McCaffery dies
2/16/2007: 331 words, approx. 1 pages
Trudy McCaffery, who co-owned Santa Anita Derby and Pacific Classic winners Came Home and Free House and bred thoroughbreds, has died at 62.McCaffery died Monday at her home in this San Diego suburb after a long battle with cancer.She and former partner John Toffan also...
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AP News
Former N.Y. printers' union chief dies
12/25/2006: 313 words, approx. 1 pages
Bertram A. Powers, the former head of New York's newspaper printers' union who led a 16-week strike in the 1960s that paralyzed the city's dailies, has died. He was 84.Powers died of pneumonia Saturday in Washington, D.C., said his son Brian A. Powers.Bertram Powers led...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Richard Peace
19,544 words, approx. 65 pages
In the following essay, Peace discusses the creative genesis of The Three Sisters.
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Critical Essay by Beverly Hahn
11,211 words, approx. 37 pages
In this essay, Hahn examines Chekhov's carefully constructed balance of opposing tensions in Three Sisters.
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Critical Essay by Carol Strongin Tufts
8,696 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Tufts praises the satirical elements of The Three Sisters.
 


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