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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

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

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

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 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

Considered one of the greatest literary achievements of the 19th century, The Death of Ivan Ilyitch by Leo Tolstoy rocks the reader out of his smug self-assurance that he is 'living as he ought.' Having accomplished this, the next question is raised: "If I certainly know that... 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