Предложение
The Proposal
Lomov, a nervous landowner, comes to propose to his neighbour's daughter, and the two quarrel over a meadow and then over their dogs before he can say it. A one-act farce.
The opening
Наталья Степановна, его дочь, 25-ти лет.
NATALYA STEPANOVNA, his daughter, twenty-five years old
Иван Васильевич Ломов, сосед Чубукова, здоровый, упитанный, но очень мнительный помещик.
IVAN VASSILEVITCH LOMOV, a neighbour of Chubukov, a large and hearty, but very suspicious landowner
Translation
- Julius West, Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series, 1916West's complete translation of the play, with stage directions.Public Domain
3340 words, about 26 minutes of reading.
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