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The Light Shines in Darkness

Leo Tolstoy

Unfinished and openly autobiographical drama, worked on between 1890 and 1900. Nikolai Saryntsev, a landowner converted to radical Christianity, wants to give away his land and clashes with his wife and family; a young disciple who refuses military service is shut in an asylum. Tolstoy left only an outline of the last act. Published in 1911.

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Translated by Louise y Aylmer Maude · 30 chapters · 2 h reading

  1. 1The Light Shines in Darkness1′
  2. 2CHARACTERS1′
  3. 3Scene 1 · 14′
  4. 4Scene 1 · 23′
  5. 5Scene 1 · 32′
  6. 6Scene 1 · 43′
  7. 7Scene 1 · 52′
  8. 8Scene 1 · 62′
  9. 9Scene 1 · 73′
  10. 10Scene 1 · 83′
  11. 11Scene 1 · 94′
  12. 12Scene 1 · 102′
  13. 13Scene 1 · 114′
  14. 14Scene 1 · 121′
  15. 15Scene 17′
  16. 16Scene 25′
  17. 17Scene 3 · 12′
  18. 18Scene 3 · 23′
  19. 19Scene 3 · 33′
  20. 20Scene 3 · 44′
  21. 21Scene 3 · 54′
  22. 22Scene 3 · 61′
  23. 23Scene 17′
  24. 24Scene 211′
  25. 25Scene 38′
  26. 26Scene 16′
  27. 27Scene 211′
  28. 28ACT V1′
  29. 29Scene changes.1′
  30. 30Scene changes.1′
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