Alexander Ostrovsky
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The Forest by Alexander Ostrovsky
Page Count: 140Year: 1871The wealthy, aging landowner Raisa Gurmyzhskaya rules her isolated estate, ruthlessly selling off portions of her titular forest for profit while shamelessly pursuing a romantic connection with a young opportunist. Her penniless niece and ward, Aksyusha, is desperately in love with a local man but is trapped by her aunt’s avarice, facing the prospect of […]
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The Storm by Alexander Ostrovsky
Page Count: 120Year: 1859The patriarchal merchant community is held captive by the ruthless and suffocating morality of its wealthy elders, chief among them the tyrannical matriarch Marfa Kabanova (Kabanikha). Her devotion to outdated traditions crushes any impulse toward personal freedom among the household. Into this repressive domestic prison steps Katerina, a young, passionate woman married to Kabanikha’s weak-willed […]
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