The Death Of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
A bleak, piercing exploration of a high-ranking official’s confrontation with mortality after a life devoted to social advancement, exposing the emptiness of bourgeois values and the indifference of family and colleagues; through mounting pain and isolation he experiences a final moral and spiritual awakening that transforms fear into compassion and acceptance. The collection’s other stories similarly probe conscience, hypocrisy, pride and the search for meaning in ordinary lives, using stark realism and moral urgency to question what makes life truly valuable.
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- Published
- 1886
- Nationality
- Russian
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- Russian
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- Alternate Titles
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- Smert' Ivana Ilyicha
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- Смерть Ивана Ильича
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