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

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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

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

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