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id: 26663
title: Fruits of Culture
author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf
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  DOORKEEPER [to Gregory] Tell the master some peasants have come from the They say they''ve come about the land--the master knows, they say. THEODORE IVÁNITCH [rises and goes up to the Peasants] So you are from Enter Sahátof and Leoníd Fyódoritch, followed by Theodore Ivánitch. LEONÍD FYÓDORITCH [comes up to the Peasants, who bow and offer him their THIRD PEASANT [bowing] Master, we have so little land, let''s not talk VASÍLY LEONÍDITCH [looks at Peasants and notices the money] And what is Peasants who have come to buy some land or other. Enter Leoníd Fyódoritch followed by Theodore Ivánitch. It''s a little secret, Leoníd Fyódoritch; let me tell it you Doctor, the Fat Lady and Leoníd Fyódoritch, Betsy and Petrístchef, TÁNYA [helps Theodore Ivánitch to place the things] Is that right? The peasants have come again, Theodore Ivánitch ... Tánya looks round at Theodore Ivánitch, Leoníd Fyódoritch, and


id: 26661
title: The Power of Darkness
author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf
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  Nikíta''s father, 50 years old, a plain-looking, God-fearing VISITORS, WOMEN, GIRLS, AND PEOPLE come to see the wedding. NAN [running in to her mother] Nikíta''s father and mother have come. NIKÍTA [enters, looks round, and seeing Anísya alone approaches quickly. wants to take me away,--tells me I''m to come home. All I know is, that I could not live if Nikíta went away. Nikíta." I began asking, but she won''t tell, but only says, "Is it true NIKÍTA [gets up angrily] What does this look like, your coming here? NIKÍTA [tossing his head back] I''m not going to talk with the likes of AKOULÍNA [comes out of closet] You''re a dog, Nikíta! MATRYÓNA [comes out of the hut and down the steps of the porch to Anísya NIKÍTA [laughs] That goes without saying, only fork out the money. ANÍSYA [looking towards the door by which Nikíta entered the hut] Well,


id: 26664
title: The Live Corpse
author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf
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  Mr. Karénin has sent back word that he will come round at once. coffin, the gipsies will come (you know I shall leave instructions with FÉDYA [waves his hand, goes to Másha, and sits down on sofa beside her] Karénin, of course you know what is in this letter? FÉDYA [sits down by Másha] Do you know who that was? Karénin sits at the table drinking tea; Sásha and Anna Pávlovna come woman could not consent to leave her husband, and he a good man, too! I know she loves Victor Yes, but you know Victor''s family, and himself too. FÉDYA [sits for a long time and smiles silently] That''s the way, that''s And you know, we love people for the good we do last letter Fédya addressed to Lisa and himself; and that this money FÉDYA [to Lisa and Karénin] Forgive me!


id: 26662
title: The First Distiller
author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf
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  help, to work again, and the ploughing will be done in good time. Enter the Peasants'' Imp with the chunk of bread. come with empty hands, and bring a miserable crust, and begin spinning grasp, if you''ll only let me take a labourer''s place with that peasant. Only one more thing left to teach him, and then let the Chief come Just wait till you try it and see the good that comes of it. LABOURER [holds a tumbler under the tap and drinks the spirit] Well, PEASANT [drinks, first sipping, then taking more and more, till he PEASANT [drinks] At first we got young at the top, in the tongue; then Peasant and Wife dance. Peasant and Wife dance. Grandfather goes up to the vessel and lets the spirit run out on to Enter the Peasant and four old men. PEASANT [goes up to Grandfather] What have you got now?


id: 26665
title: The Cause of it All
author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf
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  Ten years old, daughter of Martha and Michael. AKULÍNA [to Tramp] Come in and sit down, and be our guest. Akulína rises, goes to the table, takes a loaf of bread, cuts a TRAMP [taking the bread] Merci.[2] [Sits down on the bench and eats AKULÍNA [sitting down to spin, points at Martha and says to Tarás] It''s Yes, but look at you women too; a man has a drink. AKULÍNA [sees that the Tramp has finished his bread] Martha, I say, MARTHA [rises] Oh, my goodness, Ignát is with him! MICHAEL [stops and looks at Tramp with surprise] Is it long since you MICHAEL [takes parcel from his pocket and hands it to his wife. [He again offers vódka to the Tramp] There, drink. [He again offers vódka to the Tramp] There, drink. Enter Michael, Neighbour, an old man and a lad, pushing the Tramp TRAMP [takes parcel.


id: 26660
title: Plays: Complete Edition, Including the Posthumous Plays
author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf
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  This e-book only contains the front matter of Tolstoy''s Plays From LEO TOLSTOY concerning the translation of [Illustration: Leo Tolstoy.] LEO TOLSTOY Plays published during Tolstoy''s life Posthumous Plays _The Power of Darkness_, Tolstoy''s first and greatest play, was not _Fruits of Culture_, which he wrote three years later, to be performed The only other play published during his lifetime, _The First Distiller_, In it Tolstoy presents his own case, The play presents the terrible clash which resulted from the calls adopted such a life achieve much success therein. Tolstoy was well aware of the advantages a play possesses over a novel would write any more plays, he replied: "I would do so with great but I feel certain the Censor would not pass my plays. The result of so doing however is that in the three earlier plays now coincide with the plan adopted in the three freshly translated plays.


id: 26666
title: The Light Shines in Darkness
author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf
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  ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA [contemptuously] Nicholas Ivánovich gave it you! NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH [who had begun talking to the priest, turns NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH [smiling] I don''t know which I am to reply to. A pause, then Mary Ivánovna and Nicholas Ivánovich begin both consider one thing--that we have only one life, and can live it well, or Yes, I do not think that Christianity calls upon us to ruin Nicholas Ivánovich enters by another door, with a paper in his hand. NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH [greets the Man-servant, and shakes hands with While Tónya is playing, Mary Ivánovna and the Princess enter quietly Enter Mary Ivánovna and Nicholas Ivánovich. [31] He knows that the priest is Father Gerásim, but wishes to address FATHER GERÁSIM [offended] Pardon me, Nicholas Ivánovich, I did not come NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH [at work again] I''m ashamed to lead an idle life. Enter Nicholas Ivánovich and Lyúba. NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH [shaking hands with Borís] Think it over with God''s


id: 1755
title: Ivanoff: A Play
author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
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  You say to me: "Stop talking nonsense!" You are a good man and a [Sighing] The life of man is like a flower, blooming so gaily in [A pause] Ivanoff, let me believe better things of you. whole point is, my dear doctor--[Confused] that I married her for love A young man like Misha comes into Enter IVANOFF and SASHA through the door on the right. You are an old friend, little Sasha, you will not be angry that a strong, healthy man like myself has become--oh, heaven only knows [Laughing through her tears] Nicholas, let us run away to America If the Count wants to marry me, let him ask old story; a man loses heart and begins to go down in the world; a girl perhaps that I don''t know where you take the old man every day, and for on earth can an old man like me do with you?


id: 1756
title: Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts
author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
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  HELENA, his wife, twenty-seven years old MARINA, a quiet, grey-haired, little old woman, is sitting at the table SEREBRAKOFF, HELENA, SONIA, and TELEGIN [In a tearful voice] Vanya, I don''t like to hear you talk so. He is our great help, our right-hand man. Sonia evidently likes him, and she is in love with him, and I can [She kisses SEREBRAKOFF''S shoulder] Come, master, let me give you some and have come near bursting into tears at least twenty times to-day. What shall I do with my life and my love? never a day''s respite; how can a man live like that for forty years and but haunt you like a shadow, and I have left my work to-day to come here SEREBRAKOFF, SONIA, MARINA, and TELEGIN come in. Be quick, Marina, or we shall be called away to say good-bye both now and when we are old; and when our last hour comes we shall


id: 3735
title: The Inspector-General
author: Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich
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  play at that time in Russia seems to have been a little like our to the sage saying of the town-governor in the play, "That''s the way God all they like, it won''t do any good." Every subordinate in the town THE GOVERNOR.--A man grown old in the service, by no means a fool in his BOBCHINSKY AND DOBCHINSKY.--Short little fellows, strikingly like you have your little peccadilloes, you know, like everybody else--you are a sensible man, and you don''t let the good things that come your a drunkard, or he makes such grimaces that you feel like running away. he said, "is an official."--Yes, sir.--"On his way from St. Petersburg. The Governor has come, I don''t know what for. like," he says, "to read and write, but I am prevented because my room woman you can still--I don''t know, but I do like this sort of life.


id: 9792
title: Redemption and two other plays
author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf
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  Really, it shows you don''t know Lisa at all to talk like this. Come along to my rooms, Fédya, and I''ll tell Come now, my dear Victor, you shall hear them sing. Yes, but for God''s sake wait for me to come back. Nikíta''s father, 50 years old, a plain-looking, God-fearing Nikíta, he says, "Good-bye, Anna Petróvna," he says, "you must come NIKÍTA (enters, looks round, and, seeing Anísya alone, approaches governor of mine wants to take me away,--tells me I''m to come home. All I know is, that I could not live if Nikíta went away. call the fellow, (Anísya rises) and tell him his father wants him. to Nikíta." I began asking, but she won''t tell, but only says, "Is it Oh dear, what a life yours is, now I come to look at you. Ah, my dear, now I come to look at you, you''ve got that


id: 10722
title: Plays
author: Ostrovsky, Aleksandr Nikolaevich
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  a look at the sort of people who came to see us, and at the way our rooms if life were better, I shouldn''t have come into the garden at night. have come into your head, too--that here you are, an honest girl; you live like a bird, suddenly you''re fascinated by some man, he makes love to you, used to saying over other people''s words like a magpie; but just think for Some bad comes from spoiling people; but now and then you can''t help going person wants a thing, then he thinks about it; the boys of the girls, and And maybe the mummers are coming; the young people wanted to dress [_Going to the door_] Girls, boys, come here! Yes, my friend, I love the good old ways. We will come with you, my dear; it''s time we were going home. Go and tell him that he is wanted, my dear sir.


id: 7991
title: The Storm
author: Ostrovsky, Aleksandr Nikolaevich
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  wretched creatures, sir, that hardly look like human beings. From the opposite side, enter Mme. Kabanova, Kabanov, Katerina and MADAME KABANOVA, KABANOV, KATERINA and VARVARA. The mother''s old, and foolish, to be sure; you young people must not be Come back quickly, Tihon dear, or mamma will be scolding again. I''ll tell you, Varia; some dreadful sin is coming upon me! But what things I am saying to you, a young girl like you. I am stifling, stifling at home, I should like to run away. Come, wait a bit, brother''s going away If I see him, I shall tell him to come to the little gate. Well, things look promising for you, since she''s sent you word to come (_Boris and Katerina go away, Kudriash and Varvara (_Looks in the direction in which Boris and Katerina went away_) You''ve (_Boris looks round_.) Come here. Come, sir, let''s go on!


id: 13147
title: Savva and the Life of Man: Two plays by Leonid Andreyev
author: Andreyev, Leonid
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  of man, the meaning of life and the reason for death. mocking the life of man, laughing to scorn his joys and his sorrows, Kondraty, the friar; he looks something like a sparrow. Oh, Savva, if you only knew the terrible life people lead here. Long ago, when still a young man, he killed his son by accident, and SAVVA _(looking at her with wide-open eyes and a frank face, and say: "What has a God-fearing man like Kondraty got to do with such a Savva dear, don''t look at me like that. hear you talking, Savva, will feel as I do, and will begin to love all Let them remember long the day on which Savva Tropinin They''ve exploded God. TONY _(looking at Savva''s face in terror)_ MAN Yes, I saw it in the street, and soon it''ll be that way with us.


id: 37961
title: He Who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts
author: Andreyev, Leonid
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  You know that I leave half of the salary for Consuelo--but--perhaps you [_Stands up and shakes hands with clowns, who make silly faces._] But you look like a society man. [_Enter CONSUELO and BEZANO in circus costume._] suppose that good-looking bareback rider is in love with Consuelo, isn''t you know; he walks in and out whenever he wants to, without even looking [_Flushes like a boy, but looks straight into_ ZINIDA''S _eyes. [_Shaking hands_]: What a success, Baron--and think of it--how the crowd like it; they will laugh, and love you. startled._ BRIQUET _is staggering in like a drunken man, his hand over Give me your hand, Consuelo, I want to see what who came down to earth only to love you, foolish little Consuelo. Consuelo, laughing, jumps up and runs away, after But you do not look like a man who---MANCINI _looks at the_ BARON _with a smile_.


id: 49606
title: Anathema: A Tragedy in Seven Scenes
author: Andreyev, Leonid
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  _Sarah, David Leizer''s wife, an old Jewess, exhausted by life, is David Leizer, my old husband, came home, I said to him: "You are still You have come with bad news: David has no friends that wear clothes of And you like to have the people tell you, Nullius, that you are the like it, Nullius,--for the sons of the God of truth and mercy it is Mr. Leizer, a certain man, who looked like an old devil, caught me by tell her also: "Go, David is calling you." Do I speak properly, Nullius? Does an ordinary man throw money at people, like stones at a dog? Tell me, kind people, have you not seen David, who brings joy to the David be a man in the face of the great fear. all can hear: "David Leizer is a sick old man, and he has nothing David Leizer, but what has come of it?


id: 49596
title: The Sorrows of Belgium: A Play in Six Scenes
author: Andreyev, Leonid
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  "Papa!" "Papa!" Then, "François!" Maurice, Emil Grelieu''s _In the room are Emil Grelieu and his elder son, Pierre, a Pierre looks at his father attentively._ _Emil Grelieu''s wife enters quickly._ Yes, Pierre, my love for flowers. Pierre, you think, that I, Emil _Pierre sits motionless, his face covered with his hands. _Pierre brings her water, but Jeanne does not drink it._ _Emil Grelieu goes over to her and kisses the hand in which she Yes, I know, Emil. Emil Grelieu looks at his son, smiling. _A large room in Emil Grelieu''s villa, which has been turned Yes. EMIL GRELIEU Papa, do you know, well have good news today; I feel it. I know a very good man in Belgium-Jeanne helps Emil Grelieu with his coffee._ look at me like that, Emil; you had better not listen to what I Yes. It seems to me that I hear the sound of the water from that


id: 49852
title: The Life of Man: A Play in Five Acts
author: Andreyev, Leonid
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  women look, as they crouch together, like a little cluster of grey mice. we deck the walls with them the room will look like a fresh, luxuriant go, the little girl coughing badly, and the old man stumping along on [_Enter the Man''s Wife, her hair decked with wild flowers, and her whole neither the Man nor his Wife knows of this, although good fortune is coming to the Man as surely as some day it will depart again. Yes; like little white horses galloping, or myriads of tiny, frightened the grand, ball given by the Man. His wife dances to his humming, nice-looking young man, and had such a distinguished face. heard behind the scenes, and the Man''s Wife enters, looking as white as [_At a table a little apart from the rest there sits the Man. His white, Do you remember how the Man''s Wife looked, in her poor pink dress and


id: 52468
title: The Lower Depths: A Drama in Four Acts
author: Gorky, Maksim
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  THE ACTOR [_looks about him morosely, then goes to Anna_] Feeling bad, [_Vassilisa goes to door that leads to Pepel''s room, Alyoshka pokes [_Kvashnya, Miedviedieff, and Bubnoff rush into hallway; Luka looks Come on, old man--I''ll recite verses for you . I''ve drunk my soul away, old man--brother, I''m lost . LUKA [_looking after him_] Hard on your man, isn''t it? VASSILISA [_calling from Pepel''s room_] Vaska--come here! THE BARON [_also laughs_] Hey, old man? LUKA [_takes Nastya''s hand_] Come, dear! Luka, smiling, looks at Pepel and Natasha._] KOSTILYOFF [_crossing to Luka_] Well, old man, how''s everything? BUBNOFF [_in a low voice, to Pepel_] Vaska--the old man is done for! You see--Baron--it was the old man who stuffed the actor''s head full The old man didn''t like truth very much--as a matter of fact to Satine, who laughs_] The old man lives within himself .


id: 62880
title: The Glebe 1914/01 (Vol. 1, No. 4): Love of One''s Neighbor
author: Andreyev, Leonid
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  At the foot of the rock where the unknown man is to fall, two policemen The man''ll fall on your head and then The young man will soon fall. Tell him the man will soon drop. "A man will fall. "A man will fall. have the goodness to tell me whether you have ever seen a man fall? He won''t fall to-day, papa! Papa, children, he''s beginning to fall. (The man on the rock shouts something down into the crowd. Voices, "Look, he''s falling." Field-glasses are I saw a man fall plumb from the sky. Listen, young man, every measure has been taken to save you. (Enter a new crowd of tourists, a very elegant gentleman, the chief CORRESPONDENT (shouts to the unknown man). Papa, children, look, he is starting to fall again. (The unknown man shouts something. A man is about to fall down to his death


