UNLIMITED Audiobooks and eBooks
Over 40,000 books & works on all major devices
Get ALL YOU CAN for FREE for 30 days!
The Power of Darkness
Leo Tolstoy
How does All You Can Books work?
All You Can Books gives you UNLIMITED access to over 40,000 Audiobooks, eBooks, and Foreign Language courses. Download as many audiobooks, ebooks, language audio courses, and language e-workbooks as you want during the FREE trial and it's all yours to keep even if you cancel during the FREE trial. The service works on any major device including computers, smartphones, music players, e-readers, and tablets. You can try the service for FREE for 30 days then it's just $19.99 per month after that. So for the price everyone else charges for just 1 book, we offer you UNLIMITED audio books, e-books and language courses to download and enjoy as you please. No restrictions.
AKÍM. [sighing] Yes, it seems, it what d'you call it … if it's so, I mean, it seems that it must be what d'you call it.
MATRYÓNA. For a year, counting from St. Dimítry's day. We know you'll pay him fair wages. But give us ten roubles now. Help us out of our difficulties. [Gets up and bows to Peter].
Enter Nan and Anísya. The latter sits down at one side.
PETER. Well, if that's settled we might step across to the inn and have a drink. Come, Daddy Akím, what do you say to a glass of vódka?
AKÍM. No, I never drink that sort of thing.
PETER. Well, you'll have some tea?
AKÍM. Ah, tea! yes, I do sin that way. Yes, tea's the thing.
PETER. And the women will also have some tea. Come. 20And you, Nikíta, go and drive the sheep in and clear away the straw.
NIKÍTA. All right. . . . Read More
Try now for FREE!
"Love your service - thanks so much for what you do!"
- Customer Cathryn Mazer
"I did not realize that you would have so many audio books I would enjoy"
- Customer Sharon Morrison
"For all my fellow Audio Book & E-Book regulars:
This is about as close to nirvana as I have found!"
- Twitter post from @bobbyekat
Community Reviews
Tolstoy is not usually thought of as a playwright, but he did in fact write some plays and this 5-act drama is one of his better known. It was banned for many years. Written in 1886 it had to wait until 1902 to be performed, although there were some unofficial productions before that and it was wide
Russian village life in the 19th Century was fraught with poverty and deprivation. The village dwellers were peasants who felt the presence of a darkness clouding their very existence. Peter Ignatitch, a middle aged and well-to-do peasant, was in poor health. What might happen to his farm, his wife
'The Power of Darkness' is a play by Leo Tolstoy. It was written in 1886 and forbidden to be produced until 1902, but like a lot of other banned things, it found a way to be seen and read.
The play centers around a well-off peasant in poor health. Questions about what happens to his farm and family w
ugh