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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

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

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'

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

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

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

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

Una novela corta, pero de gran profundidad, que sigue siendo una lectura esencial para comprender las complejidades de la existencia y la universalidad de la muerte.

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

To anyone for whom Leo Tolstoy's masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina have stood as giants too daunting to scale, and equally to the many readers who have devoured those novels and are hungry for more, we offer The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories.

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

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

The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. The novella tells the story of the death of a high-court judge in 19th-century Russia... Read Full Overview

Sem d?vida uma das mais belas novelas de Tolst?i, A Morte de Ivan Ilitch desperta as mais profundas reflex?es a respeito da morte e, consequentemente, da vida. Ao se deparar com a brutal sombra da morte e a consci?ncia do fim, o protagonista, em meio ? sua agonia, come?a a... Read Full Overview

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