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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  • Published: 15 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9780307951335
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 64
  • RRP: $22.99
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich

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2 May 2016
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3 Mar 2016
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27 Apr 2004
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15 Oct 2012
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1 Jan 1981
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A stand-alone edition of Tolstoy's most famous novella, in the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky translation.

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.
  • Published: 15 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9780307951335
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 64
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

About the author

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married, had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway station of Astapovo.
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Anna Karenina
War and Peace
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
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Praise for The Death of Ivan Ilyich

  • REVIEWS OF THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH AND OTHER STORIES:
  • "The most notable volume of recently published short fiction on my shelf . . . in characteristically animated and readable translations by the dynamic duo of Russian translation." --B&N Review
  • "An excellent job. . . . The duo has managed to convey the rather simple elegance of his prose." --The New Criterion

  • REVIEWS OF THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH AND OTHER STORIES:
  • "The most notable volume of recently published short fiction on my shelf . . . in characteristically animated and readable translations by the dynamic duo of Russian translation." --B&N Review
  • "An excellent job. . . . The duo has managed to convey the rather simple elegance of his prose." --The New Criterion