Redemption and two other plays

by Leo Tolstoy

"Redemption and two other plays" by Leo Tolstoy is a collection of plays written around 1900. The central work follows Fedor Protasov, a man tormented by doubts about his wife's love, who abandons his life but lacks the courage to end it. As he descends through increasingly desperate circumstances, his wife remarries, believing him dead. When Protasov resurfaces, she faces bigamy charges and exile, forcing him toward a final, tragic choice that reveals where her heart truly lay all along.