The Death of Ivan Ilych
- ISBN-10
- 1536961205
- ISBN-13
- 9781536961201
- Series
- The Death of Ivan Ilych
- Pages
- 68
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-08-08
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Author
- Tolstoy Lev
Description
The Death of Ivan Ilyich first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. Usually classed among the best examples of the novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich tells the story of the sufferings and death of a high-court judge from a terminal illness in 19th-century Russia. Ivan Ilyich (Ilyich is a patronymic, his surname is Golovin) is a highly regarded official of the Court of Justice, described by Tolstoy as, "neither as cold and formal as his elder brother nor as wild as the younger, but was a happy mean between them an intelligent, polished, lively, and agreeable man.As the story progresses, he becomes more and more introspective and emotional as he ponders the reason for his agonizing illness and death.
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- 2017-09-25
- 60 pages
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