Excerpt from The Seven That Were Hanged About seven months after the appearance of S avva, came The Life of Man. Thus, three of the plays upon which Andreyev's reputation as a dramatist in no small degree rests were crowded together in a period of less than one year (november, 1905, to September, The Life of Man is one of the boldest and, in the opinion of the writer, one of the most successful attempts. Of its kind in dramatic literature. It is abstraction in art raised to the highest conceivable power. Andreyev set himself no less a task than to write in this one play, consisting of five scenes and a prologue, all that the title signifies: The Life of Man, of Everyman. It is meant to comprise all the essential elements that enter into the average human life. Like an algebraic formula, it can be applied to every special case. In fact, in external workmanship it strongly suggests a mathematical formula. It is precise, accurate and stiff as a paradigm. Scene I. The Birth of Man and the Mother's Travail. Scene II. Love and Poverty. Scene III. A Ball at Man's. Scene IV. Man's Mis fortune. Scene V. The Death of Man. In each scene. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.