The Death of Ivan Ilych, Large-Print Edition (Paperback)

from MissWoodhouse1816

This classic novella was chosen by my university as their pick for The Big Read- a national reading event in North America sponsored by grants from the Nation Endowment for the Arts. Additionally, it was my first real essay into Russian literature. The novella begins, aptly, with the death of Iva...

from PilgrimJess

"Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible." The book opens at the end of the story when a group of judges are informed that Ivan Ilyich has died. These men rather than mourn his passing instead begin to think of the promotions and transfers that the dea...

from AndrewBlackman

A man dies slowly and in great agony. He ponders the meaning of life, and this increases his anguish: even worse than the physical pain of a slow, lingering death is the spiritual anguish of realising he has wasted his life. Tolstoy's main target here is dishonesty and hypocrisy. This is establis...

from AndrewBlackman

A man dies slowly and in great agony. He ponders the meaning of life, and this increases his anguish: even worse than the physical pain of a slow, lingering death is the spiritual anguish of realising he has wasted his life. Tolstoy's main target here is dishonesty and hypocrisy. This is establis...

from foof2you

Tolstoy's look at a man who is dying. We do not what has caused Ivan Ilyich long slide to death, yet we know what he thinks and feels about it.