The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Penguin Little Black Classics) - Softcover

Tolstoy, Leo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241251761 ISBN 13: 9780241251768

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2016

Synopsis

'It is only a bruise'

A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident...

One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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Review:

The English-speaking world is indebted to these two translators. Orlando Figes, The New York Review of Books

Excellent. . . . The duo has managed to convey the rather simple elegance of Tolstoy s prose. The New Criterion

Pevear and Volokhonsky s new version is . . . flexible individuated, immediate. The Nation

Well translated. As a lover of Tolstoy s work, one couldn t ask for more, and I can t recommend it highly enough. Andre Alexis, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)"

"The English-speaking world is indebted to these two translators." --Orlando Figes, The New York Review of Books

"Excellent. . . . The duo has managed to convey the rather simple elegance of Tolstoy's prose." --The New Criterion

"Pevear and Volokhonsky's new version is . . . flexible individuated, immediate." --The Nation

"Well translated. As a lover of Tolstoy's work, one couldn't ask for more, and I can't recommend it highly enough." --Andre Alexis, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

-The English-speaking world is indebted to these two translators.- --Orlando Figes, The New York Review of Books

-Excellent. . . . The duo has managed to convey the rather simple elegance of Tolstoy's prose.- --The New Criterion

-Pevear and Volokhonsky's new version is . . . flexible individuated, immediate.- --The Nation

-Well translated. As a lover of Tolstoy's work, one couldn't ask for more, and I can't recommend it highly enough.- --Andre Alexis, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

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: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0241251761
• ISBN 13: 9780241251768
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128