Cover of The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy Ebook The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Ebook · Sovereign

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Author
Leo Tolstoy
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
70 pages
ISBN
9781909676589
Published
15 July 2013
Imprint
Sovereign
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • life
  • death
  • philosophical
  • psychological
  • humanity
  • purpose of life

All titles

Description

Ivan Ilyich did everything properly. Then pain. Tolstoy’s novella is a judge’s successful life seen from the sickroom — career, wife, screens, and the slow knowledge that none of it was the point. Death as the last honest visitor. The colleagues keep working; the wife keeps the tone. Only the peasant Gerasim knows how to sit with a dying man. Tolstoy’s simplest trap, sprung in a respectable house. A respectable career that the dying man can no longer believe in.

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.

More by Leo Tolstoy

Other editions