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.

• | Author: Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
• | Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• | Publication Date: Oct 02, 2012
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780307951335
• | ISBN-10: 0307951332