The Death of Ivan Ilyich
by Leo Tolstoy
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0553210351
- ISBN 13
- 9780553210354
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About This Item
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. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?
This short novel was the artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction. A thoroughly absorbing and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.
Synopsis
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 conversion to Christianity. The novel tells the story of the life and death, at the age of 45, of a high court judge in 19th-century Russia — a miserable husband, proud father, and upwardly-mobile member of Russia's professional class, the object of Tolstoy's unremitting satire.
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- Title
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- Author
- Leo Tolstoy
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0553210351
- ISBN 13
- 9780553210354
- Publisher
- Bantam Classics
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- This edition first published
- March 1, 1981
- Keywords
- used books, discount books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Literature;
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