The Death of Ivan Ilyich : Penguin Little Black Classic no. 87
Author(s): Leo Tolstoy
'It is only a bruise' A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident...
Laying humanity bare, these two devastating stories ask- is it possible to have a good death? And what does it mean to truly live?
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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.
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- : Penguin UK
- : Penguin
- : 0.099
- : 30 April 2016
- : 161mm X 111mm X 10mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Leo Tolstoy
- : Paperback
- : en
- : 128