Without a Dowry = Бесприданница

Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (1823-1886) – a great Russian playwright, the founder of Russian realistic theater, who created 47 plays with 728 characters. His works continue to appear on stage, many of them have been adapted into films.
The book includes some of the author's best plays – «Without a Dowry» and «The Profitable Place».
The plot of the drama «Without a Dowry» revolves around a beautiful but poor girl, Larisa Ogudalova, who desperately seeks love in a world full of greed, injustice, jealousy, and vanity.
The main theme of the comedy «The Profitable Place» is bribery. In this work, Ostrovsky explored the nature of corruption and attempted to understand the thoughts of bribers and their justifications. Although the play was written over one and a half centuries ago, it remains relevant to modern audiences.
The English translation with comments was prepared by American scholar, an expert in the field of Russian language and literature, Norman Henley.