The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

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‘As good as anything Tolstoy ever wrote… Self-assured, vital, unforgettable’ Guardian The title story of this collection is about a man battling a mysterious illness. His family visit his bedside, their faces masks of concern. His colleagues pay their respects but only think of the advantages created by his death. This intensely moving story of Ivan Ilyich’s lonely end is one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy’s late fiction.The ten other stories in this collection include ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’, ‘The Devil’, and ‘Hadji Murat’ which has been described by Harold Bloom as ‘the best story in the world’.

Additional information

Weight 0.514 kg
Dimensions 3.7 × 13.5 × 21.6 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

528

Publisher

Year Published

2010-11-4

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099541068

About The Author

Leo Tolstoy was born in central Russia on 9 September 1828. In 1852 he published his first work, the autobiographical Childhood. He served in the army during the Crimean War and his Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6) are based on his experiences. His two most popular masterpieces are War and Peace (1864-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-8). He died in 20 November 1910.

As good as anything Tolstoy ever wrote… Self-assured, vital, unforgettable

Other text

The simplicity and power of this novella, the story of the terrible encroachment of death on a shallow man spiritually unprepared for it, has staggered millions

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