This edition of Plays A Protegee of the Mistress; Poverty Is No Crime; Sin and Sorrow Are Common to All; It's a Family Affair--We ll by Alexander Ostrovsky is given by Ashed Phoenix - Million Book Edition ...

One of Ostrovsky\"s most poetical works, The Storm is set in Kalinov, a provincial town on the banks of the Upper Volga. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, Katerna is tormented by her widowed mother-in-law, Marfa Kabanova....

One of the most important Russian playwrights of the nineteenth century, Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886) is credited with bringing realism to the Russian stage. A contemporary of Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, and precursor to Chekhov, he was a......