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    The First Distiller: A Comedy in Six Acts
    The First Distiller: A Comedy in Six Acts
    The First Distiller: A Comedy in Six Acts
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    The First Distiller: A Comedy in Six Acts

    By Leo Tolstoy

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    Such was the breadth of Tolstoy’s talents that he was unsurpassed in stories, essays and plays. A play about a demon who was stuck on the theft of the souls of peasants. The story itself is a story about juvenile morality, which seems so heavy that Tolstoy’s footprints should be on every page.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKtoczyta.pl
    Release dateAug 19, 2019
    ISBN9788382005462
    The First Distiller: A Comedy in Six Acts
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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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      The First Distiller - Leo Tolstoy

      Leo Tolstoy

      The First Distiller

      A Comedy in Six Acts

      Warsaw 2019

      Contents

      CHARACTERS

      ACT I

      ACT II

      ACT III

      ACT IV

      ACT V

      ACT VI

      CHARACTERS

      A PEASANT.

      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.

      THE FIRST DISTILLER

      A COMEDY

      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 to see what the Peasant will do.

      PEASANT [unharnesses the horse] With God’s blessing! [Lets the horse loose, and goes towards the place where his coat is lying] I’m awfully hungry. The wife cut a big chunk, but see

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