Without a Dowry = Бесприданница

Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky (1823-1886) – a great Russian playwright, founder of the Russian realistic theater, who created 47 plays with 728 characters. His works continue to grace the theater stage to this day, many of them have been adapted for... film.
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, trying to understand the thoughts of bribe-takers and their justifications. Although the play was written more than a century and a half ago, it remains relevant to modern audiences.
The translation into English with commentaries was done by American scholar, expert in the field of Russian language and literature Norman Henley.