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Title: Plays
Complete Edition, Including the Posthumous Plays

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Translator: Louise Maude
Aylmer Maude

Release Date: September 20, 2008 [EBook #26660]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[ Transcriber's Note:
This e-book only contains the front matter of Tolstoy's Plays
(Complete Edition). The individual plays have been posted as
separate Project Gutenberg e-books; they are linked to from this
book's HTML version. For reference, here is a list of their
e-book numbers:

26661: The Power of Darkness
26662: The First Distiller
26663: Fruits of Culture
26664: The Live Corpse
26665: The Cause of it All
26666: The Light Shines in Darkness
]

From LEO TOLSTOY concerning the translation of
his works by LOUISE and AYLMER MAUDE:--

"Better translators, both for knowledge of the
two languages and for penetration into the very
meaning of the matter translated, could not be
invented."

[Illustration: Leo Tolstoy.]

LEO TOLSTOY

PLAYS

Translated by

LOUISE AND AYLMER MAUDE

COMPLETE EDITION
INCLUDING THE POSTHUMOUS
PLAYS

FOURTH IMPRESSION

NEW YORK
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
1919

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

LEO TOLSTOY (Photogravure Portrait) Frontispiece

MATRYONA GIVES ANISYA THE POWDERS Facing page 12

I'M NOT ASHAMED OF MY PARENT " " 51

HER BOX IS FULL AS IT IS