The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781840224535

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Tolstoy wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations that have stood the test of time.

The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Death of Ivan Ilych

Author: Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9781501029035

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Tolstoy begins The Death of Ivan Ilyich with the protagonist's death and moves backward from there. The novel opens with Peter Ivanovich reading about the death of his fellow judge and friend Ivan Ilyich, who has just died at the age of forty-five. Peter is with a group of legal representatives during a break in a trial as he glances through the obituaries. With the news of their colleague's death, each man thinks about how Ivan's passing might benefit them. None of them are looking forward to visiting the family to pay their respects. It is just a social obligation. This annotated edition includes a biography and critical essay.

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy Illustrated Edition
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy Illustrated Edition

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Publisher:

Published: 2021-05-12

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13:

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he Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?

The Death of Ivan Ilych (Annotated)
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Annotated)

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2015-10-25

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781518762482

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. The novella tells the story of the death of a high-court judge in 19th-century Russia.

The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Death of Ivan Ilych

Author: Leon Tolstoy

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-07-28

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781500672423

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In the 1860s, he wrote his first great novel, War and Peace. In 1873, Tolstoy set to work on the second of his best known novels, Anna Karenina. One of his most successful short works was The Death of Iván Ilych. Tolstoy's wrote the novelette following his conversion to Christianity. The author contrasts life (in the practice of law and as the head of his family) to death (in the narrow sack of darkness and total solitude). Faced with an interminable illness, Ivan Ilych reviews his past life, finding that he had lived the moral life of a loving father, a good provider, and an upright citizen. After much physical and mental suffering, towards the end of his agony, he hits upon a shocking question: “What if my whole life has been wrong?”The answer becomes a simple epiphany which reveals to him the truth. Once the light of understanding sets on him, he experiences an immediate release from his endless suffering. What really matters in this life is the truth, which he could only find in the throes of death. Our version is presented in contemporary American English. Many translations and editions in the public domain are in British English—19th century English. The only liberty we have taken is the portraying of Iván Ilych's thoughts —towards the end— in 'indirect free speech.'