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The Cossacks and Other Early Stories by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace and Anna Karenina, the greatest novels ever written, did not emerge from a vacuum. They were preceded by at least twenty prose works of different kinds, some of them masterpieces in their own right. These stories may be viewed as a fascinating encounter with literary predeces ...Show more
The Cossacks and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Tolstoy's powerful semiautobiographical stories based on his time spent in the Russian army, part of our series of fresh new Tolstoy translations In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army. The four years he spent as a soldier were among the most significant in his life and i ...Show more
The Death Ivan Ilych and other stories (riverrun editions) by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other StoriesTolstoy wrote in many genres for different audiences. In this, the first ...Show more
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Larissa (TRN) Richard (TRN); Volokhonsky Leo; Pevear Tolstoy
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
Hailed as one of the world's masterpieces of psychological realism, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high-court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he ...Show more
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'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 fro ...Show more
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
This new edition combines Tolstoy's most famous short tale, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, Master and Man, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In Ivan Ilyich, a bureaucrat looks back over his li ...Show more
The Death of Ivan Ilyich: New Translation: Newly Translated and Annotated - Also included The Devil, another celebrated novella by Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classic Fiction
The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process. When, after a small accident, he fails to make the expected recovery, it gradually becomes clear that he is soon to die. Ivan Ilyich ...Show more
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Wordsworth
In the last two days of his own life, Peter Carson completed these new translations of The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession before he succumbed to cancer in January 2013. Carson, the eminent British publisher, editor, and translator who, in the words of his author Mary Beard, had probably more influe ...Show more
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Fiction
In the last two days of his life, Peter Carson completed these translations of The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession before he succumbed to cancer. Carson, the eminent publisher, editor and translator who, in the words of Mary Beard, "had probably more influence on the literary landscape of [Britain] ...Show more
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Fiction
"The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy's late fiction and the first major fictional work to be published by the author after his crisis and conversion to Christianity. The story of the life and death at the age of forty-five, of a high court prosecutor in 19th-century Russia, i ...Show more
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
A collection of stories on morality, this volume includes: "The Raid", "Woodfelling", "Three Deaths", "Polikushka", "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", "After the Ball", and "The Forged Coupon".
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Category: Fiction
A vibrant translation of Tolstoy's most important short fiction by the award-winning translators of "War and Peace." Here are eleven masterful stories from the mature author, some autobiographical, others moral parables, and all told with the evocative power that was Tolstoy's alone. They include "The P ...Show more