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The power of darkness : a drama in five acts

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A cold and unsparing look at Russian peasant life, this drama centers on a character whose crimes progress from adultery to murder.

Tolstoy's moving portrait of a class enslaved by poverty and ignorance was written in 1886 but its performance was suppressed by Russian authorities until 1902.

A 1904 Yiddish version marked the first successful production of a play by Tolstoy in the United States.

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Dover Publications Inc.
0486828360 / 9780486828367
Paperback / softback
891.723
22/02/2019
United States
English
112 pages
21 cm
Translated from the Russian.