A Month in the Country

A fresh interpretation of Turgenev’s comedy about the calamitous effects of love.

About the author

Richard Nelson's many plays include The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country (That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, Sorry and Regular Singing); Nikolai and the Others; Goodnight Children Everywhere (Olivier Award for Best Play); Franny's Way; Some Americans Abroad; Frank's Home; Two Shakespearean Actors and James Joyce's The Dead (with Shaun Davey; Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical).

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have translated the works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Boris Pasternak and Mikhail Bulgakov. Their translations of The Brothers Karamozov and Anna Karenina won the PEN Translation Prize in 1991 and 2002, respectively. Pevear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsky, of St. Petersburg, are married and live in France.

Product details

• Authors: Turgenev Ivan, TURGENEV, Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
• Assisted by: Nelson (Translation), Richard Nelson (Translation), Pevear (Translation), Richard Pevear (Translation), Volokhonsky (Translation), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.02.2015
• EAN: 9781559364676
• ISBN: 978-1-55936-467-6
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 211 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 299 g
• Series: Tcg Classic Russian Drama; TCG Classic Russian Drama Series; Tcg Classic Russian Drama
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies