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    Plays: Complete Edition, Including the Posthumous Plays
    Plays: Complete Edition, Including the Posthumous Plays
    Plays: Complete Edition, Including the Posthumous Plays
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    Plays: Complete Edition, Including the Posthumous Plays

    By Aylmer Maude, Louise Maude and Leo Tolstoy

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 2005
    Plays: Complete Edition, Including the Posthumous Plays

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      Plays - Aylmer Maude

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Plays, by Leo Tolstoy

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      Title: Plays

      Complete Edition, Including the Posthumous Plays

      Author: Leo Tolstoy

      Translator: Louise Maude

      Aylmer Maude

      Release Date: September 20, 2008 [EBook #26660]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PLAYS ***

      Produced by Bryan Ness, Jana Srna and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's Note:

      This e-book only contains the front matter of Tolstoy's Plays (Complete Edition). The individual plays have been posted as separate Project Gutenberg e-books; they are linked to from this book's table of contents.

      From Leo Tolstoy concerning the translation of his works by Louise and Aylmer Maude:—

      Better translators, both for knowledge of the two languages and for penetration into the very meaning of the matter translated, could not be invented.

      LEO TOLSTOY

      PLAYS

      Translated by

      Louise and Aylmer Maude

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