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Tolstoy’s most famous novella is an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption, here in a powerful translation by the award-winning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Ivan Ilyich is a middle-aged man who has spent his life focused on his career as a bureaucrat and emotionally detached from his wife and children. After an accident he finds himself on the brink of an untimely death, which he sees as a terrible injustice. Face to face with his mortality, Ivan begins to question everything he has believed about the meaning of life. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a masterpiece of psychological realism and philosophical profundity that has inspired generations of readers.
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The Death Of Ivan Ilyich, Lew Nikolajewitsch Tolstoi
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- Released
- 2012
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Lew Nikolajewitsch Tolstoi
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 64
- ISBN10
- 0307951332
- ISBN13
- 9780307951335
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Philosophical Topics, Classics, Short Stories, 19th century, Russia, Russian Literature
- Original title
- Smertʹ Ivana Ilʹiča
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- Tolstoy’s most famous novella is an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption, here in a powerful translation by the award-winning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Ivan Ilyich is a middle-aged man who has spent his life focused on his career as a bureaucrat and emotionally detached from his wife and children. After an accident he finds himself on the brink of an untimely death, which he sees as a terrible injustice. Face to face with his mortality, Ivan begins to question everything he has believed about the meaning of life. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a masterpiece of psychological realism and philosophical profundity that has inspired generations of readers.