The Cherry Orchard / Вишневый сад. Книга для чтения на английском языке

The Cherry Orchard / Вишневый сад. Книга для чтения на английском языке

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Чтение в оригинале (Каро)Russian Classic Literature

В книгу вошли знаменитые и полюбившиеся читателю пьесы А. П. Чехова «Вишневый сад», «Чайка» и «Дядя Ваня» в переводе на английский язык.

Anton Chekhov / Антон Чехов

The Cherry Orchard / Вишневый сад.

Книга для чтения на английском языке

В© РљРђР Рћ, 2019

The Cherry Orchard

A Play in Four Acts

Characters

Lubov Andreyevna Ranevsky (Mme. Ranevsky),a landowner

Anya, her daughter, aged seventeen

Varya (Barbara),her adopted daughter, aged twenty-seven

Leonid Andreyevitch Gaev, Mme. Ranevsky’s brother

Ermolai Alexeyevitch Lopakhin, a merchant

Peter Sergeyevitch Trofimov, a student

Boris Borisovitch Simeonov-Pischin,a landowner

Charlotta Ivanovna, a governess

Simeon Panteleyevitch Epikhodov, a clerk

Dunyasha (Avdotya Fedorovna),a maidservant

Fiers, an old footman, aged eighty-seven

Yasha,a young footman

A Tramp

A station-master

Post-office clerk

Guests

A servant

The action takes place onMme.

Ranevsky’sestate

Act I

A room which is still called the nursery. One of the doors leads intoAnya’sroom. It is close on sunrise.

It is May. The cherry-trees are in flower but it is chilly in the garden. There is an early frost. The windows of the room are shut.Dunyashacomes in with a candle, andLopakhinwith a book in his hand.

Lopakhin. The train’s arrived, thank God. What’s the time?

Dunyasha. It will soon be two. [Blows out candle] It is light already.

Lopakhin. How much was the train late? Two hours at least. [Yawns and stretches himself] I have made a rotten mess of it! I came here on purpose to meet them at the station, and then overslept myself… in my chair.

It’s a pity. I wish you’d wakened me.

Dunyasha. I thought you’d gone away. [Listening] I think I hear them coming.

Lopakhin. [Listens] No… They’ve got to collect their luggage and so on… [Pause] Lubov Andreyevna has been living abroad for five years; I don’t know what she’ll be like now… She’s a good sort – an easy, simple person.