"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English." --New Yorker
The Seagull as you've never read it before, this brand new edition includes passages that were omitted from the widely-known version of the play originally performed at the Moscow Art Theater in 1898. The volume contains both the canonically recognized version as well as the newly restored original text written by Chekhov. Throughout this groundbreaking adaptation of the revered work, never-before-seen lines are "restored" to their original use in the play as Chekhov...
"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English." --New Yorker