The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Penguin Classics 60s S.) - Softcover

Tolstoy, Leo; Edmonds, Rosemary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0146001451 ISBN 13: 9780146001451

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1995

Synopsis

"Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible." Written shortly after his conversion to Christianity, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is one of Tolstoy's masterpieces in fiction. A man facing death is forced to reconcile the contradictions of his own existence and his fear of the unknown in what may or may not exist after life.

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Review:

"[This book] is usually regarded as an amazing narrative of the experience of dying, a search for the meaning of death. It is all that, and more: it's a great questioning of what is and what ought to be in a human life." --Nadine Gordimer

About the Author:

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married, had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway station of Astapovo.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0146001451
• ISBN 13: 9780146001451
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64