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Tolstoy, Leo : The Death of Ivan Ilyich

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Series: Oxford World's Classics
A new translation by Nicolas Pasternak
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.
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category: Books > Foreign Language Books > Books in English > Literature in English >
category: Books > Literature > Novel >
publisher: Oxford University Press, 2015
item number / ISBN: 9780199669882
binding: paperback
pages: 218
language: English
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