Death of Ivan Ilyich

Title: Death of Ivan Ilyich
Author: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780307951335
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good


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Publisher Description:

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.