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The Power of Darkness, by Leo Tolstoy
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Title: The Power of Darkness
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Translator: Louise Maude Aylmer Maude
Release Date: September 20, 2008 [EBook 26661]
Language: English
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THE POWER OF DARKNESS
OR
IF A CLAW IS CAUGHT THE BIRD IS LOST
A DRAMA IN FIVE ACTS
(1886)
CHARACTERS
PETER IGNÁTITCH. A well-to-do peasant, 42 years old, married for the second time, and sickly.
ANÍSYA. His wife, 32 years old, fond of dress.
AKOULÍNA. Peter's daughter by his first marriage, 16 years old, hard of hearing, mentally unde