The death of Ivan Ilych, and other stories

Family happiness; The Kreutzer sonata; Master and man

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The death of Ivan Ilych, and other stories

Family happiness; The Kreutzer sonata; Master and man

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Here are some of Tolstoy's extraordinary short stories, from -The Death of Ivan Ilyich—in a masterly new translation-to -The Raid,- -The Wood-felling,- -Three Deaths,- -Polikushka,- -After the Ball,- and -The Forged Coupon,- all gripping and eloquent lessons on two of Tolstoy's most persistent themes: life and death. More experimental than his novels, Tolstoy's stories are essential reading for anyone interested in his development as one of the major writers and thinkers of his time.

As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" and the other works in this volume, Tolstoy conjures characters who, tested to the limit, reveal glorious and unexpected reserves of courage, or baseness of a near inhuman kind. Two vivid parables and "The Forged Coupon", a tale of criminality, explore class relations after the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 and the connection between an ethical life and worldly issues. In "Master and Workman" Tolstoy creates one of his most gripping dramas about human relationships put to the test in an extreme situation. "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is an existential masterpiece, a biting satire that recounts with extraordinary power the final illness and death of a bourgeois lawyer. In his Introduction Andrew Kahn explores Tolstoy's moral concerns and the stylistic features of these late stories, sensitively translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater. - Back cover.

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The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories
April 1, 2003, Signet Classics
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The death of Ivan Ilych and other stories
1994, Penguin, Signet Classics
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The death of Ivan Ilych: and other stories.
1960, New American Library
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Table of Contents

Family happiness. Translated by J. D. Duff.
The death of Ivan Ilyitch. Translated by Aylmer Maude.
The Kreutzer sonata. Translated by Aylmer Maude.
Master and man. Translated by Aylmer Maude.

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. [294].

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New York
Series
A Signet classic -- CQ 507
Other Titles
Family happiness., Kreutzer sonata., Master and man.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891.73/3
Library of Congress
PG3366.A13 M32 1960

The Physical Object

Pagination
304 p.
Number of pages
304

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24965511M
Internet Archive
deathofivanilych00tols
OCLC/WorldCat
40319346

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WE WERE in mourning for my mother, who had died in the autumn, and I spent all that winter alone in the country with Katya and Sonya.
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