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The Three Sisters, a play by Chekhov first staged at the Moscow Art Theater in 1901, tells the tale of a wealthy Russian family yearning to relocate to Moscow. However, the three sisters find themselves stuck in provincial life. Similar to Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters explores themes of unfulfilled ambitions and indirect actions.
In The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov's characters wish to save an orchard filled with cherished memories, rather than see it destroyed to make way for a new development.
Chekhov was significantly influenced by Leo Tolstoy, and there are notable similarities between Tolstoy’s depiction of peasants and religious faith in Anna Karenina and Chekhov’s exploration of these themes in Uncle Vanya. Nonetheless, Anna Karenina is also regarded as one of the greatest tragic love stories in literature.
Like Chekhov, George Eliot was an advocate of realism in literature. Her masterpiece, Middlemarch, centers on Dorothea Brooke, a woman determined to make a meaningful impact on society but is hindered by an ill-fated marriage.
Henry James’s Portrait of a Lady is considered one of the world's finest novels about deception and unfulfilled desires.
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