The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Penguin Little Black Classics)

by Leo Tolstoy (Author), Anthony Briggs (Translator), Leo Tolstoy (Author), Anthony Briggs (Translator), Leo Tolstoy (Author), Leo Tolstoy (Author)

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'It is only a bruise' A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident... One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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'It is only a bruise' A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident... One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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Format: mass_market
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published:
ISBN 10: 0241251761
ISBN 13: 9780241251768
Book Overview: Laying humanity bare, these two devastating stories ask- is it possible to have a good death? And what does it mean to truly live?

Media Reviews

The English-speaking world is indebted to these two translators. --Orlando Figes, The New York Review of Books

Excellent. . . . The duo has managed to convey the rather simple elegance of Tolstoy's prose. --The New Criterion

Pevear and Volokhonsky's new version is . . . flexible individuated, immediate. --The Nation

Well translated. As a lover of Tolstoy's work, one couldn't ask for more, and I can't recommend it highly enough. --Andr Alexis, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Author Bio

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married, had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway station of Astapovo.