The Live Corpse

A Play in Six Acts

First published in 1886

In 1919 Translated by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude

From Tolstoy's Plays

From Leo Tolstoy concerning the translation of his works by Louise and Aylmer Maude:--"Better translators, both for knowledge of the two languages and for penetration into the very meaning of the matter translated, could not be invented."