Presents Bradbury's short story about a house whose advanced technology first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants, accompanied by questions and exercises about the text.
When Ranyevskaya returns almost bankrupt after ten years abroad, she and her brother snub the lucrative scheme of Lopakhin, a peasant turned entrepreneur, to save the family estate.
Provides an unabridged selection from the story of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman and includes activities and exercises based on the text.
