Genre: | Fiction |
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Language : | English |
Published: | October 02, 2012 |
Edition: | 6th |
Paperback | |
ISBN13: | 9780307951335 |
ISBN10: | 0307951332 |
Pages: | 64 |
Dimensions: | 5.18 x 7.98 x 0.22 inches |
Weight: | 73.99 g |
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.