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Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

El personaje dibujado por Tolstoi es Iv n Ilitch, presidente de la Audiencia Territorial. El novelista pinta el mundo ineficaz y bald o de Iv n y hace una dura cr tica de la aristocracia, que tan a fondo conoc a. No s lo refleja a Tolstoi en esta novela su personal terror a la... Read Full Overview

'It is only a bruise'

El argumento gira en torno a Iv?n Ilich, un peque?o bur?crata que fue educado en su infancia con las convicciones de poder alcanzar un puesto dentro del gobierno del Imperio Ruso. Poco a poco sus ideales se van cumpliendo, pero se dar? cuenta de que su esfuerzo ha sido en vano;... Read Full Overview

One of the world's most famous writers, Leo Tolstoy, is probably best known for his epic romantic works "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace". In addition to being the author of some of the greatest novels ever written, Tolstoy was also a prolific short-story writer. One of... Read Full Overview

The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process. When, after a small accident, he fails to make the expected recovery, it gradually becomes clear that he... Read Full Overview

One of the most perfect works by the author of War and Peace, The Death of Ivan Ilych is one of Leo Tolstoy's most celebrated pieces of late fiction. Dealing with the tyranny of the bourgeois niceties, the weakness in the human heart, living without meaning and death. Ivan Ilych... Read Full Overview

The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a profound meditation on mortality and the meaning of a well-lived life. The novella delves into the existential crisis of a seemingly ordinary man, Ivan Ilyich Golovin, as he confronts his impending death. The narrative chronicles his pursuit of societal... Read Full Overview

Inspirada na real hist ria da vida e morte do promotor de justi a Ivan Ilitch Mechnikov, e ambientada na R ssia do final do s culo XIX, essa novela ficcional de Tolst i narra o doloroso processo da morte precoce de um juiz instrutor, cuja vida aparentemente tranquila e correta,... Read Full Overview

'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' is probably Tolstoy's greatest novella, because it encapsualtes his notion of what constitutes the better way to live. Ivan Ilycih, slowly dying, comes to realize that the material life he devoted himself to is meaningless when confronted by death... Read Full Overview

Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer who earned fame and global renown for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Writing during the late 19th century, Tolstoy lived during a literary period in which Realism flourished, and today his two... Read Full Overview

The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. "Usually classed among the best examples of the novella", The Death of Ivan Ilyich tells... Read Full Overview

There is no explanation. Written eight years after the publication of Anna Karenin a--a time during which, despite the global success of his novels, Leo Tolstoy renounced fiction in favor of religious and philosophical tracts-- The Death of Ivan Ilych represents perhaps the most... Read Full Overview