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The Cause of It All, The First Distiller, Fruits of Culture, The Light Shines in Darkness, The Live Corpse, The Power of Darkness. According to Wikipedia: 'As a fiction writer, Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina. In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th-century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures as Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.'

SIX PLAYS BY LEO TOLSTOY


 

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translated by Aylmer and Louise Maude

 

The Cause of It All

The First Distiller

Fruits of Culture

The Light Shines in Darkness

The Live Corpse

The Power of Darkness

THE CAUSE OF IT ALL, A PLAY IN TWO ACTS


 

CHARACTERS

 

AKULÍNA. An old woman of seventy, brisk, dignified, old-fashioned.

 

MICHAEL. Her son, thirty-five years old, passionate, self-satisfied, vain and strong.

 

MARTHA. Her daughter-in-law, a grumbler, speaks much and rapidly.

 

PARÁSHKA. Ten years old, daughter of Martha and Michael.

 

TARÁS. The village elder's assistant, speaks slowly and gives himself airs.

 

A TRAMP. Forty years old, restless, thin, speaks impressively; when drunk is particularly free and easy.

 

IGNÁT. Forty years old, a buffoon, merry and stupid.

 

                            THE CAUSE OF IT ALL

 

 ACT I

 

    Autumn. A peasant's hut, with a small room partitioned off. Akulína     sits spinning; Martha the housewife is kneading bread; little     Paráshka is rocking a cradle.

 

 MARTHA. Oh dear, my heart feels heavy! I know it means trouble; there's nothing to keep him there. It will again be like the other day, when he went to town to sell the firewood and drank nearly half of it. And he bl