Death of Ivan Ilych (The Art of the Novella)
by Лев Толстой, Anthony Briggs, Anthony Horvath, Constance Garnett (translator), and Zinc Read
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There is no explanation. Here in a vibrant new translation, the tale of a judge who slowly comes to understand that his illness is fatal was inspired by Tolstoy's observation at his local train station of hundreds of shackled prisoners being sent off to Siberia, many for petty crimes. When he learned that the sentencing judge had died, Tolstoy was roused to consider the judge's thoughts during his final days--a study on the acceptance of mortality only deepened by the death, during its writing, of one of Tolstoy's own young children.
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Literature, Manners and customs in fiction, Novellas, Fiction, Death in fiction, Russian, Russian fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Russian language, Readers, Death, Sick, Russian Short stories, open_syllabus_project, Diseases, Judges, Slavic philology, Tolstoy, leo, graf, 1828-1910, Russian literature, history and criticism, Fiction, general, Ingles (lingua), Romance ingles, Literatura inglesa, Children's fiction, Death, fiction, Literature and fiction (general), Literature and fiction, short stories and essays, Russian literature, Smertʹ Ivana Ilʹicha (Tolstoy, Leo, graf), Literature--russian, Fiction in russian, 1800-1917 - english texts, Pg3366.s6 s6 1981, Pg 3366.s6 t654d 1981, 891.73/3, Fictional Works, Sick--fiction, Death--fiction, Pg3366.s6 d74 2008, Classic Literature, Drama, Historical Fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, classics, Modern Literature, Attitude to Death, Popular Works, Terminally IllPeople
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Death of Ivan Ilych (The Art of the Novella)
April 2008, Melville House Publishing
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The death of Ivan Ilyich: and, Master and man
2002, Modern Library
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La mort d'Ivan Ilitch
January 22, 2001, Flammarion
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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This satirical novella tells the story of the life and early death of a high court judge. Ivan Ilych is proud of his achievements and his status in society, despite his poor relations with his wife which renders his home life bleak and joyless. When he becomes hopelessly ill he begins to realize that he has not after all lived the good life he had supposed he was enjoying.
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