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On the Evils of Tobacco
Series: NHB Classic Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
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Written: 1886

On the Evils of Tobacco

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
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Anton Chekhov's short play On the Evils of Tobacco is a bittersweet monologue in which a scientific lecture is hijacked by thoughts of domestic misery.

This translation by Chekhov expert Stephen Mulrine is published in the collection Chekhov: Shorts.

'Here I am giving a lecture, I look happy enough, but what I'd really like to do is shriek at the top of my lungs, or take flight to the back of beyond somewhere.'

Series: NHB Classic Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts
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Also by Anton Chekhov:

The Seagull
Seagull
A Tragic Figure
Uncle Vanya
Ivanov
The Cherry Orchard
The Seagull
Three Sisters
Uncle Vanya
The Cherry Orchard
Chekhov: Shorts
Swansong
Three Sisters
Three Sisters
The Cherry Orchard
The Proposal
Uncle Vanya
Ivanov
Three Sisters
Chekhov: Four Plays
Three Sisters
Three Sisters
The Wedding
The Bear
Chekhov's Three Sisters and Woolf's Orlando
Chekhov on Theatre

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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

Chekhov: Shorts
An Enemy of the People
The Misanthrope
The Seagull
The Servant of Two Masters
Uncle Vanya
Ivanov
The Dance of Death
Ibsen: Three Plays
Summerfolk
A Tragic Figure
The Wild Duck
Chekhov: Four Plays
Children of the Sun
The Government Inspector
Three Sisters
The Game Of Love And Chance
Cinzano & Smirnova's Birthday
Ghosts
Swansong
The Marriage of Figaro
The Cherry Orchard
John Gabriel Borkman
The Wedding
Chekhov on Theatre
The Bear
Six Characters in Search of an Author
The Proposal

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