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The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Author
Leo Tolstoy
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
2 hours 20 minutes
ISBN
9781802565898
Published
2 May 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • life
  • death
  • philosophical
  • psychological
  • humanity
  • purpose of life

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Description

Ivan Ilyich did everything properly. Then pain. Tolstoy’s novella, listened unabridged in English, is a judge’s successful life heard from the sickroom — career, whist, a wife keeping the tone, colleagues still working, and Gerasim the one person who knows how to sit with a dying man. Death as the last honest visitor. A respectable career the dying man can no longer believe in. A short Russian masterpiece of the well-lived life coming apart in the ear.

Author

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was born to a titled family at Yasnaya Polyana, served in the Crimean War, and wrote the two novels that made Russian fiction a world event: War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The first holds a nation at war and at home; the second holds a marriage until it breaks. Later he turned from the worldly novel toward essays and moral tales, arguing with church, property, and his own fame. One hundred and six titles here.

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