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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:

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

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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

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

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