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The Light Shines in Darkness

Leo Tolstoy

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .I can't prosecute the peasants about the wood they needed and cut down …

340 ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. I should think they also need this samovár.

NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. Well, if you want me to tell you why I can't agree with those people being shut up in prison, and being totally ruined, because they cut down ten trees in a forest which is considered to be mine …

ALEXÁNDRA IVÁNOVNA. Considered so by everybody.

PETER SEMYÓNOVICH. Oh dear! Disputing again.

NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. Even if I considered that forest mine, which I cannot do, we have 3000 acres of forest, with about 150 trees to the acre. In all, about 450,000 trees—is that correct? Well, they have cut down ten trees—that is, one 45-thousandth part. Now is it worth while, and can one really decide, to tear a man away from his family and put him in prison for that?

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Community Reviews

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Matthew 5:3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 23, 33-37

Matthew 6:19-21, 24

Matthew 7;12, 24

What about another perspective? How

A surprisingly thought-provoking play. Wish he would have had a chance to finish it, because I'm curious what the ending would have been.

Sehr interessante Kirchen/Gesellschaftskritik.
Kritisiert wird, wie inkompatibel das Verhalten der Kirche eigentlich mit christlichen Werten ist.
Das Buch beschriebt, wie ein Mann hoffnungslos daran verzweifelt seinem moralischen (christlichen) Kompass zu folgen.

Außerdem nichtmal hundert Seiten lang

4,25 stars - English Ebook

Review follows later

اولين نمايشنامه از تولستوی بود که خواندم و آدم رو به فکر می بره آیا کار نیکلای درسته یا نه؟ چطور آدم با فقر و رنج دیگران زندگی کنه و زندگی خانوادگی چی میشه؟ حتی اگر به دیگران هم ظلم نکرد و پول با تلاش و زحمت خودت بدست بیاد، آیا اخلاقی است که به فقرا فکر نکرد؟ واقعا چطور میشه با وجود ظلم و فقر دیگران

"But how is one to live, if one give everything away?"

"Each one of us has to save his own soul, and has to do God's work himself, but instead of that we busy ourselves saving other people and teaching them. And what do we teach them? We teach them now, at the end of the nineteenth century, th

I wish that Tolstoy had finished the 5th act according to the notes he left on it. I really felt myself sympathizing with Nicholas Ivanovich. I wanted his family to support him more, but it really shows the power that materialism holds on everyone.

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