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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  • Published: 1 January 1981
  • ISBN: 9780553210354
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $12.99
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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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46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946

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 to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?

This short novel was the artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction. A thoroughly absorbing and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.
  • Published: 1 January 1981
  • ISBN: 9780553210354
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $12.99
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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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