The Power of Darkness - A Drama in Five Acts

Leo Tolstoy; Louise Maude (Translator); Aylmer Maude (Translator)

Best known today as the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Count Leo Tolstoy also is acknowledged as a skilled playwright. His five-act drama The Power of Darkness offers a cold and unsparing look at Russian peasant life that illustrates the costs of pursuing personal desires rather than the di...