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The Cause of it All, by Leo Tolstoy
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Title: The Cause of it All
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Translator: Louise Maude Aylmer Maude
Release Date: September 20, 2008 [EBook 26665]
Language: English
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THE CAUSE OF IT ALL
A PLAY IN TWO ACTS
CHARACTERS
AKULÍNA. An old woman of seventy, brisk, dignified, old-fashioned.
MICHAEL. Her son, thirty-five years old, passionate, self-satisfied, vain and strong.
MARTHA. Her daughter-in-law, a grumbler, speaks much and rapidly.
PARÁSHKA. Ten years old, daughter of Martha and Michael.
TARÁS. The village elder's