The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories is a collection of stories that emerged from a profound spiritual crisis, during which Leo Tolstoy believed that he had encountered death itself. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Anthony Briggs,...
"No one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied." As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" and the other works in this volume, Tolstoy...
This is a collection of three short stories by Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Cossacks and Happy Ever After. The volume includes an introduction discussing the stories' influences and contemporary reactions towards them.
A collection of Tolstoy's short stories, including Master and Man, Family Happiness, and The Kreutzer Sonata..
Leo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep aside the sham of surface appearances and lay bare man's intimate gestures, acts, and thoughts. Murder and sacrifice...greed and devotion...lust and affection...vanity and love --...