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The Cause of It All — Leo Tolstoy

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The Cause of It All

От ней все качества

Lev Tolstói en Yásnaia Poliana (1908)
byLeo 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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Sources

  • 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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