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The First Distiller, by Leo Tolstoy
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Title: The First Distiller
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Translator: Louise Maude Aylmer Maude
Release Date: September 20, 2008 [EBook 26662]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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THE FIRST DISTILLER
A COMEDY IN SIX ACTS
(1886)
CHARACTERS
A PEASANT.
{ WIFE. HIS { MOTHER. { GRANDFATHER. { 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.
THE FIR