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The Cause of It All

Name: The Cause of It All
Author: Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Short comedy written in 1910 for the popular theatre about drunkenness: a drunken tramp taken in out of charity by a peasant family robs them, and drink is to blame for it all. It was Tolstoy's last dramatic work.

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Translated by Louise y Aylmer Maude · 8 chapters · 1 h reading

1The Cause of It All1′
2CHARACTERS1′
3ACT I · 13′
4ACT I · 23′
5ACT I · 32′
6ACT I · 42′
7ACT I · 52′
8ACT II5′