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Originally published in 1886, this was one of Tolstoy's several religious and moral works in that period of his life.

CONTENTS How the Devil Redeemed the Crust of Bread The Repentant Sinner The Kernel of the Size of a Hen's Egg How Much Land a Man Needs The Godson Three Sons Labourer Emelyan and the Empty Drum"

CONTENTS: Introduction Walk in the Light While Ye Have Light Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian author, a master of realistic fiction and one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is best known for his two longest works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, which are commonly regarded as among the finest novels ever written.

CONTENTS: Life God's Work Form and Existence The Offences of the Undertakings of Life Relation to Truth Life and Metaphysics Doubt Dissatisfaction Disagreements Proselytism Ownership Family Relations Varia

The Man Who Was Dead, The Cause of it All, and The Light That Shines in the Darkness are the three plays left by Tolstoy for publication after his death. The Light That Shines in the Darkness -- the last of Tolstoy's plays, was left unfinished. In Russia it is prohibited on account of its allusions to the refusal of military service. Yet it is in some ways the most interesting of Tolstoy's posthumous works. It is obviously not strictly autobiographical, for Tolstoy was not assassinated as the hero of the piece is, nor was his daughter engaged to be married to a young prince who refused...

Of the three plays left by Tolstoy for publication after his death, one is a short two-act Temperance play called in English The Cause of it All (the Russian title is a colloquialism difficult to render, but "From it all evil flows" is as near as one can get to it). It does not claim to be a piece of much importance, but if ever it is staged, it should act easily and well. Another of these posthumous plays is The Man Who Was Dead (The Live Corpse), a powerful piece, in which Tolstoy introduces one of those gipsy choirs which had such an influence on him (and still more on his brother Sergius)...