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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

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

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'

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

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

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

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

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, was foremost among the great Russian novelists of the nineteenth century, and is widely considered one of the greatest writers of prose fiction in world history. In his perceptive and moving depiction of Ivan... 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

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

La muerte de Ivan Ilich comienza en los tribunales de San Petersburgo, donde tres amigos y colegas de un hombre llamado Iv n Ilich se enteran por el peri dico que Iv n muri . Nadie parece estar profundamente afectado por esto, pero uno de ellos, Peter Ivanovich, va al velatorio... Read Full Overview

The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process. When, after a small accident, he fails to make the expected recovery, it gradually becomes clear that he... Read Full Overview

The Death of Ivan Ilyich, hailed as one of the world's greatest masterpieces on the theme of death and dying, tells the tale of a worldly careerist and high court judge who has never given the inevitable nature of his death even a fleeting thought. But eventually, death makes... Read Full Overview