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