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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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    PublisherCopyright Group
    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

    Count Lev (Leo) Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born at Vasnaya Polyana in the Russian province of Tula in 1828. He inherited the family title aged nineteen, quit university and after a period of the kind of dissolute aristocratic life so convincingly portrayed in his later novels, joined the army, where he started to write. Travels in Europe opened him to western ideas, and he returned to his family estates to live as a benign landowner. In 1862 he married Sofia Behr, who bore him thirteen children. He expressed his increasingly subversive, but devout, views through prolific work that culminated in the immortal novels of his middle years, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Beloved in Russia and with a worldwide following, but feared by the Tsarist state and excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox church, he died 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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