The Power of Darkness
A Drama in Five Acts
Best known today as the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Count Leo Tolstoy also is acknowledged as a skilled playwright. His five-act drama The Power of Darkness offers a cold and unsparing look at Russian peasant life that illustrates the costs of pursuing personal desires rather than the dictates of morality. The grimly realistic tragedy is based on a real incident, centering on a peasant's confession to a party of wedding guests of his participation in a series of horrific crimes that range from adultery and murder to infanticide. Tolstoy's moving portrait of a class enslaved by poverty and ignorance was written in 1886, but its…
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Weitere Autoren: Maude, Louise (Übers.) / Maude, Aylmer (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-486-83696-6
- EAN: 0800759836963
- Produktnummer: 29671224
- Verlag: Guilford Publications
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 80 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 875 KB
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Leo Tolstoy. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude
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