The Storm: A Play

By Aleksandr Ostrovsky

Book Overview

In "The Storm" there is an atmosphere of the little Russian town, with its primitive inhabitants, merchants, and workpeople, an atmosphere untouched, unadulterated by the ideas of any outside European influence. But the special triumph of "The Storm" is that although it is a realistic picture of old-fashioned Russian patriarchal life, it is one of the deepest and simplest psychological analyses of the Russian soul ever made. Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (1823 - 1886) was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. Ostrovsky's dramas in general are marked by intense somberness, biting humor and merciless realism. "The Storm" is the most poetical of his works, but all his leading plays still hold the stage.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1536807702
• ISBN13: 9781536807707
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 66 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.1" x 5.0"