Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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 career as a bureaucrat and emotionally detached from his wife and children. After an accident he finds himself on the brink of an untimely death, which he sees as a terrible injustice. Face to face with his mortality, Ivan begins to question everything he has believed about the meaning of life. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a masterpiece of psychological realism and philosophical profundity that has inspired generations of readers.
- Series
- Vintage Classics
- ISBN
- 0307951332 / 9780307951335
- Pages
- 64
- Weight
- 3.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.2 x 0.2 in.
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