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Vera, by Oscar Wilde
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Title: Vera or, The Nihilists
Author: Oscar Wilde
Release Date: August 30, 2008 [EBook #26494]
Language: English
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VERA; OR, THE NIHILISTS.
Of this work, 200 copies only have been printed, for private circulation. This is No....
VERA; OR, THE NIHILISTS.
A DRAMA IN A PROLOGUE, AND FOUR ACTS.
BY OSCAR WILDE.
NOW FIRST PUBLISHED.
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PRIVATELY PRINTED, 1902.
This Play was written in 1881, and is now published from the author's own copy, showing his corrections of and additions to the original text.
PERSONS IN THE PROLOGUE.
PETER SABOUROFF (an Innkeeper). VERA SABOUROFF (his Daughter). MICHAEL (a Peasant). COLONEL KOTEMKIN.
Scene, Russia. Time, 1795.
PERSONS IN THE PLAY.
IVAN THE CZAR. PRINCE PAUL MARALOFFSKI (Prime Minister of Russia). PRINCE PETROVITCH. COUNT ROUVALOFF. MARQUIS DE POIVRARD. BARON RAFF. GENERAL KOTEMKIN. A PAGE.
Nihilists.
PETER TCHERNAVITCH, President of the Nihil