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Leo Tolstoy - The First Distiller, A Comedy: “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
Leo Tolstoy - The First Distiller, A Comedy: “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
Leo Tolstoy - The First Distiller, A Comedy: “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
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Leo Tolstoy - The First Distiller, A Comedy: “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”

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Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9th 1828 into Russian nobility but abandoned his title and through his interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus became a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His writings on non-violence were to have a profound impact on Gandhi and Martin Luther King. His reputation for many people is based on the epic, in length and scope, of his novel ‘War & Peace’. For that alone Tolstoy would be widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of all time. But such was the breadth of his talents that he was consummate at short stories, essays and plays. Here we publish ‘The First Distiller’ one of those classic plays.

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Release dateOct 25, 2013
ISBN9781783945146
Leo Tolstoy - The First Distiller, A Comedy: “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy grew up in Russia, raised by a elderly aunt and educated by French tutors while studying at Kazen University before giving up on his education and volunteering for military duty. When writing his greatest works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy drew upon his diaries for material. At eighty-two, while away from home, he suffered from declining health and died in Astapovo, Riazan in 1910.

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    Leo Tolstoy - The First Distiller, A Comedy - Leo Tolstoy

    The First Distiller: A Comedy by Leo Tolstoy

    Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9th 1828 into Russian nobility but abandoned his title and through his interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus became a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist.  His writings on non-violence were to have a profound impact on Gandhi and Martin Luther King. His reputation for many people is based on the epic, in length and scope, of his novel ‘War & Peace’.  For that alone Tolstoy would be widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of all time.  But such was the breadth of his talents that he was consummate at short stories, essays and plays.  Here we publish ‘The First Distiller’ one of those classic plays.

    Leo Tolstoy died acclaimed and admired throughout the world on November 20th 1910.

    Table of Contents

    Characters

    Act 1

    Act 2

    Act 3

    Act 4

    Act 5

    Act 6

    Leo Tolstoy – A Short Biography

    Characters

    A PEASANT.

    HIS WIFE.

    HIS  MOTHER.

    HIS GRANDFATHER.

    HIS LITTLE DAUGHTER.

    A NEIGHBOUR.

    FOUR VILLAGE ELDERS.

    OLD WOMEN, WOMEN, GIRLS AND LADS.

    THE CHIEF OF THE DEVILS.

    HIS SECRETARY.

    A DANDY IMP.

    THE OFFICIALS' IMP.

    THE PEASANTS' IMP.

    SENTINELS, DOORKEEPERS AND IMPS.

    ACT I

    PEASANT [ploughing. Looks up] It's noon. Time to unharness. Gee up, get along! Fagged out? Poor old beast! One more turn and back again, that will be the last furrow, and then dinner. It was a good idea to bring that chunk of bread with me. I'll not go home, but sit down by the well and have a bite and a rest, and Peggy can graze awhile. Then, with God's help, to work again, and the ploughing will be done in good time.

    [Enter Imp; hides behind a bush.]

    IMP. See what a good fellow he is! Keeps calling on God. Wait a bit, friend, you'll be calling on the Devil before long! I'll just take away his chunk. He'll miss it before long, and will begin to hunt for it. He'll be hungry, and then he'll swear and call on the Devil.

    [Takes the chunk of bread and sits down behind the bush watching

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