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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:

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

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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

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

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