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

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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

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

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