Swan Song
Swan Song
by Anton Checkov
PLAYS BY ANTON TCHEKOFF
TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARIAN FELL
CONTENTS
Introduction
Chronological List of Works
The Swan Song
INTRODUCTION
ANTON TCHEKOFF
THE last years of the nineteenth century were for Russia tinged with doubt and gloom. The high-tide of vitality that had risen during the Turkish war ebbed in the early eighties, leaving behind it a dead level of apathy which lasted until ...