The Death of Ivan Ilych—Смерть Ивана Ильича: English-Russian Parallel Text Edition - Softcover

Tolstoy, Leo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 055741833X ISBN 13: 9780557418336

Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc., 2010

Synopsis

Leo Tolstoy’s classic life-affirming tale of denial and acceptance, The Death of Ivan Ilych—Смерть Ивана Ильича is presented for the first time in English-Russian parallel text, complete and unabridged. Ivan Ilych learns of his impending death. How he deals with it and his glorious realization at the end are examples of Tolstoy’s great insights into the human experience—filled with the author’s vigorous style that has resonated with readers for over a century. Chapter illustrations feature the artwork of Tolstoy's contemporary, artist Ilya Yefimovich Repin. The Bilingual Library presents the world’s classics in parallel text. Each page in the original language is mirrored by its English translation on the facing page. Series editor D. Bannon is a member of the American Literary Translators Association and the American Translators Association.

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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 a Russian novelist and moral philosopher noted for his ideas of nonviolent resistance. His diary reveals an incessant pursuit of a morally justified life. He was known for his generosity to the peasants.His best known novels are War and Peace (1869), which Tolstoy regarded as an epic rather than a novel, and Anna Karenina (1877). His work was admired in his time by Dostoyevsky, Checkov, Turgenev, and Flaubert, and later by Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 055741833X
• ISBN 13: 9780557418336
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 134