A Comedy in Four Acts by Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky, Introduced and Translated by Herbert R Smith Jr., Ph.D. Includes 1875 original and 1878 revision. To a summer vacation spot outside of Moscow come a beautiful young woman and her uncle-he wants a husband for her. But she doesn't know it. Nor does she know that the uncle's lackey wants her for his own wife. The trio find an eligible young man and his mother-she wants someone he can marry. And he doesn't know it. The son has caught the eye of a less-than-young merchant's widow. He does know that and isn't at all flattered. A traditional...