Three comedies and a tragedy by one of Russia's greatest playwrights.

The following book is a collection of plays written by Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative

Contemporary of Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy and precursor to Chekhov, he was a keen sociological observer, often exposing abuses of power, landing him in

A greedy widow behaves badly: she sells off pieces of her nephew's land inheritance, and keeps her niece in the household as a servant, refusing to let her marr