{"product_id":"9781410218308","title":"The Man Who Was Dead And The Cause Of It All (Two Plays)","description":"Of the three plays left by Tolstoy for publication after his death, one is a short two-act Temperance play called in English The Cause of it All (the Russian title is a colloquialism difficult to render, but \"From it all evil flows\" is as near as one can get to it). It does not claim to be a piece of much importance, but if ever it is staged, it should act easily and well.\u003cbr\u003e        Another of these posthumous plays is The Man Who Was Dead (The Live Corpse), a powerful piece, in which Tolstoy introduces one of those gipsy choirs which had such an influence on him (and still more on his brother Sergius) when he was a young man of twenty to twenty-three, before he went to the Caucasus and entered the army.\u003cbr\u003e     The last of Tolstoy's plays, The Light That Shines in Darkness, was left unfinished.  ","brand":"University Press of the Pacific","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043815506160,"sku":"9781410218308","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781410218308_p0.jpg?v=1763720738","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781410218308","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}