The Light Shines in the Darkness
Leo Tolstoy, My Old Classics, My Old Classics
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The Light Shines in the Darkness
Leo Tolstoy, My Old Classics, My Old Classics
Informazioni sul libro
The Light Shines in Darkness by Leo Tolstoy - is an unfinished play by Leo Tolstoy, written in 1890. Arguably his most autobiographical piece, the play is said to 'mirror Leo Tolstoy's highly personal dilemma as if seen through the crucible of the family.The scene represents the verandah of a fine country-house, in front of which a croquet-lawn and tennis-court are shown, also a flower-bed. The children are playing croquet with their governess. Mary Ivánovna Sarýntsova, a handsome elegant woman of forty; her sister, Alexándra Ivanovna Kohovtseva, a stupid, determined woman of forty-five; and her husband, Peter Semyónovich Kóhovtsef, a fat flabby man, dressed in a summer suit, with a pince-nez, are sitting on the verandah at a table with a samovár and coffee-pot. Mary Ivánovna Sarýntsova, Alexándra Ivánovna Kóhovtseva, and Peter Semyónovich Kóhovtsev are drinking coffee, and the latter is smoking.