The Power of Darkness（黑暗的势力） 立即阅读
The Power of Darkness (Russian: Власть тьмы, Vlast' t'my) is a five-act drama by Leo Tolstoy. Written in 1886, the play's production was forbidden in Russia until 1902, mainly through the influence of Konstantin Pobedonostsev. In spite of the ban, the play was unofficially produced and read numerous times. The central character is a peasant, Nikita, who seduces and abandons a young orphan girl Marinka; then the lovely Anisija murders her own husband to marry Nikita.
One, two, three, four, five. There were five of them. Five couriers, sitting on a bench outside the convent on the summit of the Great St. Bernard in Switzerland, looking at the remote heights, stained by the setting sun as if a mighty quantity of red wine had been broached upon the mountain top, and had not yet had time to sink into the snow. This is not my simile. It was made for the occasion by the stoutest courier, who was a German. None of the others took any more notice of it than they took of me, sitting on another bench on the other side of the convent door, smoking my cigar, like them, and—also like them—looking at the reddened snow, and at the lonely shed hard by, where the bodies of belated travellers, dug out of it, slowly wither away, knowing no corruption in that cold region.
The Cause of it All（一切因由） 立即阅读
CHARACTERSAKULÍNA. An old woman of seventy, brisk, dignified, old-fashioned.MICHAEL. Her son, thirty-five years old, passionate, self-satisfied,vain and strong.MARTHA. Her daughter-in-law, a grumbler, speaks much and rapidly.PARÁSHKA. Ten years old, daughter of Martha and Michael.TARÁS. The village elder's assistant, speaks slowly and gives himselfairs.A TRAMP. Forty years old, restless, thin, speaks impressively; whendrunk is particularly free and easy.IGNÁT. Forty years old, a buffoon, merry and stupid.
