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The First Distiller
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The First Distiller, subtitled How the Imp Earned a Crust (Russian: Первый винокур, или Как чертенок краюшку заслужил), is a play by Leo Tolstoy published in 1886, and translated into English by Aylmer and Louise Maude.[1]
According to academic Andrew Donskov, The First Distiller was an anti-alcohol morality play, based on Tolstoy's short story Promoting a Devil, that drew upon numerous literary themes already present in Russian literature in the 1860s, such as A. F. Pogossky's 1861 story of the same title.[2]
It was first translated into French by the famous Polish translator Téodor de Wyzewa in November 1886.[3]
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Russian
- Первый винокур, или Как чертенок краюшку выкупал, from rvb.ru
English
- The First Distiller: A Comedy in Six Acts, from RevoltLib.com
- The First Distiller, from Marxists.org
- The First Distiller, from TheAnarchistLibrary.org
- The First Distiller, from Project Gutenberg
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