TY - BOOK AU - Chekhov,Anton Pavlovich AU - Stoppard,Tom AU - Rappaport,Helen TI - The Cherry Orchard: a comedy in four acts SN - 9780802144096 (pbk.) U1 - 891.723 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Grove Press KW - Russian drama KW - 19th century N2 - In The Cherry orchard, his last full-length play, and improverished landowning family is unable to face the fact that their estate is about to be auctioned off. Lopakhin, a local merchant, presents numerous options to save it, including cutting down their prized cherry orchard. But the family is sticken with denial. The cherry orchard charts the precipitous descent of a wealthy family and in the process creates a bold meditation on social change and bourgeois materialism ER -