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قراءة كتاب Plays: Complete Edition, Including the Posthumous Plays
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Plays: Complete Edition, Including the Posthumous Plays
PLAYS
Translated by
Louise and Aylmer Maude
COMPLETE EDITION
INCLUDING THE POSTHUMOUS
PLAYS
FOURTH IMPRESSION
NEW YORK
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
1919
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Leo Tolstoy (Photogravure Portrait) | Frontispiece |
| Matryóna gives Anísya the powders | Facing page 12 |
| I'm not ashamed of my parent | Facing page 51 |
| Her box is full as it is | Facing page 53 |
| You tell me not to fear men? | Facing page 91 |
| Well, dear, and what progression is our business making? | Facing page 174 |
| There, you see! You are being made a fool of | Facing page 223 |
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Preface | ix |
| Plays published during Tolstoy's life | |
|---|---|
| The Power of Darkness (1886) | 3 |
| The First Distiller (1886) | 97 |
| Fruits of Culture (1889) | 125 |
| Posthumous Plays | |
| The Live Corpse | 229 |
| The Cause of it All | 303 |
| The Light Shines in Darkness | 321 |
PREFACE
The Power of Darkness, Tolstoy's first and greatest play, was not written until he was fifty-eight years of age, and it was not allowed to be performed in Russia till some years later. Both there and elsewhere abroad it was highly successful on the stage, as was also the comedy, Fruits of Culture, which he wrote three years later, to be performed by his own family and their friends.
The only other play published during his lifetime, The First Distiller, is a very slight piece of no particular dramatic importance. It was written in the cause of temperance.
Besides these, he left three other plays finished, or nearly finished, when he died.