The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories (Family Happiness, The Kreutzer Sonata & Master and Man)
By Leo Tolstoy.
Description
"The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy's late fiction and the first major fictional work to be published by the author after his crisis and conversion to Christianity. The story of the life and death at the age of forty-five, of a high court prosecutor in 19th-century Russia, it is an intense and moving examination of loss and the possibilities of redemption, in which Tolstoy explores the dichotomy between the artificial and the authentic life. The nine other stories in this new collection include "Hadji Murat" which has been described by H...
ISBN(s)
0451525086, 9780451525086
