An aristocratic family returns to their debt-ridden estate and refuses to face the sale of their beloved cherry orchard, even as the merchant who once served them prepares to buy it.
Books that mention The Cherry Orchard (5)
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides: “an off-off-Broadway production of The Cherry Orchard”
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger: “Have you ever seen a really beautiful production of, say, The Cherry Orchard?”
Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens: “I saw a production of The Cherry Orchard from the wings—a good point of vantage for a Chekhov play, incidentally”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “a practice followed also in Chekhov's finest plays, Three Sis ters and The Cherry Orchard.”
In the Fold by Rachel Cusk: Epigraph: Liubov Andreyevna's speech, 'Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard' (epigraph)