The death of Ivan Ilyich
by Лев Толстой, Anthony Briggs, Anthony Horvath, Constance Garnett (translator), and Zinc Read
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Ivan Ilych, a peaceful public official in the Russian provinces, has his life permanently changed by a serious illness which no doctor can accurately diagnose. Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The 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. From world-renowned novelist Leo Tolstoy comes this story of a worldly careerist who must consider death for the first time and examine his own mortality. With a superb translation by Lynn Solotaroff, it features an introduction by Ronald Blythe.
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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, classicsPeople
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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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