'As good as anything Tolstoy ever wrote... Self-assured,vital,unforgettable'GuardianThe title story of this collection is about a man battling a mysterious illness. His family visit his bedside,their faces masks of concern. His colleagues pay their respects but only think of the advantages created by his death. This intensely moving story of Ivan Ilyich's lonely end is one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy's late fiction.The ten other stories in this collection include'The Kreutzer Sonata','The Devil',and'Hadji Murat'which has been described by Harold Bloom as'the best story in the world'.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099541066Number of pages: 528Weight: 514 gDimensions: 216 x 135 x 37 mm
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As good as anything Tolstoy ever wrote... Self-assured,vital,unforgettableThe simplicity and power of this novella,the story of the terrible encroachment of death on a shallow man spiritually unprepared for it,has staggered millionsI don't read Russian,but I think Tolstoy's writing comes over whatever translation you read...he wrote the great,terrible story The Death of Ivan IllyichAn indubitable masterpieceFor me,the best insight into the process of dying comes from Leo Tolstoy in his short story,The Death of Ivan Ilych,which examines the life and death of the most ordinary man
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