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Too Dear!

Дорого стоит

Lev Tolstói en Yásnaia Poliana (1908)
byLeo Tolstoy

Adaptation of a passage in Guy de Maupassant's Sur l'eau. The tiny principality of Monaco sentences a murderer to death but cannot pay for an executioner or a guillotine, nor afford to keep him in prison, so it ends by paying him a pension to leave. A satire on capital punishment. Written in 1890, published in England in 1899.

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Adaptation of Maupassant.

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  • Толстой, Л. Н. Собрание сочинений в 22 томах. Moscú: Judózhestvennaia literatura, 1978–1985 (índices de los tomos 1–22 en la Biblioteca Virtual Rusa, RVB; el t. 10, de 1982, recoge los relatos de la Nueva Azbuka y de los cuatro Libros rusos de lectura).

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