The Death of Ivan Ilyich |
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| Author:
| Tolstoy, Leo |
| Translator:
| Pevear, Richard
Volokhonsky, Larissa |
| Series title: | Vintage Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-307-95133-5 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2012 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $24.99 |
Book Description:
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Tolstoy's most famous novella is an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption, here in a powerful translation by the award-winning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Ivan Ilyich is a middle-aged man who has spent his life focused on his career as a bureaucrat and emotionally detached from his wife and children. After an accident he finds himself on the brink of an untimely death, which he sees as a terrible injustice. Face to face...
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Tolstoy's most famous novella is an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption, here in a powerful translation by the award-winning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
Ivan Ilyich is a middle-aged man who has spent his life focused on his career as a bureaucrat and emotionally detached from his wife and children. After an accident he finds himself on the brink of an untimely death, which he sees as a terrible injustice. Face to face with his mortality, Ivan begins to question everything he has believed about the meaning of life. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a masterpiece of psychological realism and philosophical profundity that has inspired generations of readers.