The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
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- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
3 April 2008
Summary
At the age of forty-one, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) underwent a profound spiritual crisis, from which he emerged believing that he had encountered death itself. These seven compelling stories explore, in very different ways, his subsequent preoccupation with mortality.
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a devastating account of a man fighting his inevitable end, and asks the existential question: why must a good person be taken before his time?
- In Polikushka, a light-fingered drunk’s chance to prove himself has tragic repercussions.
- Three Deaths depicts the last moments of an aristocrat, a peasant, and a tree.
- The Forged Coupon shows a seemingly minor offense that leads inexorably to ever more horrific crimes.
- And in three tales about soldiers – After the Ball, The Wood-felling, and The Raid – Tolstoy portrays the brutality that all too often accompanies military life.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140449617 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140449612 |
| Author: | Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Briggs, David McDuff, Ronald Wilks |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 3 April 2008 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Audience Age: | 17 |
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. Among his best-known works are the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). Tolstoy died on November 20, 1910.
Anthony Briggs
Anthony Briggs has written, translated, or edited many books and articles on Russian and English literature. A leading authority on Alexander Pushkin, he has also edited five volumes of English poetry. His recent translation of War and Peace has been widely acclaimed.
David McDuff
David McDuff has translated a number of nineteenth-century Russian prose works for the Penguin Classics series. These include Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, The House of the Dead, and Tolstoy’s The Cossacks.
Ronald Wilks
Ronald Wilks has translated The Little Demon by Sologub and, for Penguin Classics, My Childhood, My Apprenticeship, and My Universities by Gorky and four volumes of stories by Chekhov: The Kiss and Other Stories, The Duel and Other Stories, The Party and Other Stories, and The Fiancee and Other Stories.
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