The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

Name: The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories - Penguin Random House South Africa
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Leo Tolstoy, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear

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Ivan Ilyich has always led a proper life. Only as he dies does he begin to ask what that meant.

The title story of this collection follows Ivan Ilyich, a successful official battling a mysterious illness. His family visit his bedside, their faces masks of concern. His colleagues pay their respects but think only of the advantages created by his death.
As Ivan's suffering deepens, the respectable life he has built begins to seem hollow, and the truth of death becomes impossible to avoid. It is one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy's late fiction.
The 10 other stories in this collection include 'The Kreutzer Sonata', 'The Devil' and 'Hadji Murat', and range across military captivity, jealousy, spiritual crisis, peasant life and moral awakening.
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About the Author

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was born in central Russia on 9 September 1828. In 1852 he published his first work, the autobiographical Childhood. He served in the army during the Crimean War and his Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6) are based on his experiences. His two most popular masterpieces are War and Peace (1864-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-8). He died in 1910.

Larissa Volokhonsky

Larissa Volokhonsky was born in Leningrad.
She has translated the work of the prominent
Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann
and John Meyendorff.

Richard Pevear

Richard Pevear has published translations of Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Savinio and Pavel Florensky, as well as two books of poetry.

He has received fellowships for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of the translation of The Brothers Karamazov.