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Title: Uncle Vanya Author: Anton Checkov Release Date: November 23, 2008 [EBook #1756] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK UNCLE VANYA ***
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UNCLE VANYA
SCENES FROM COUNTRY LIFE
IN FOUR ACTS
By Anton Checkov
Contents
CHARACTERS
UNCLE VANYA
ACT I ACT II ACT III ACT IV
CHARACTERS
ALEXANDER SEREBRAKOFF, a retired professor HELENA, his wife, twenty-seven years old SONIA, his daughter by a former marriage MME. VOITSKAYA, widow of a privy councilor, and mother of Serebrakoff's first wife IVAN (VANYA) VOITSKI, her son MICHAEL ASTROFF, a doctor ILIA (WAFFLES) TELEGIN, an impoverished landowner MARINA, an old nurse A WORKMAN
The scene is laid on SEREBRAKOFF'S country place
UNCLE VANYA
ACT I
A country house on a terrace. In front of it a garden.