The collection includes the plays “It’s No Vice to Be Poor,” “The Storm,” “A Profitable Position,” “The Forest,” and “Our Own People—We’ll Settle Up!”
In A. N. Ostrovsky’s works, Russian life is captured in the variety of fates, everyday life, and psychological shades, presenting a gallery of types—from powerfully money-obsessed, cruel merchants and officials, and landed gentry, to numerous servants, lodgers, and pious wanderers…