The Death of Ivan Ilych

by Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude (Translator)

Overview

Ivan Ilych is a bourgeois from a good family, of fair intelligence, constantly worried about the opinion of other people. Even his marriage is flat: he married his wife more out of social convenience than love. Everything is going along fine, until the protagonist suffers a trivial domestic accident. Falling from a stool Ivan Ilych accuses severe pain, a pain that will become increasingly disabling as time goes on, forcing him to consult numerous doctors in an attempt to recover. The illness thus changes his priorities, he becomes impatient with the noisy indifference of healthy people, no one understands or listens to him, except for one muzik, a villager, who from the day of the accident takes care of him. Thus Ivan will be led to reexamine the scale of values that had inspired his life, in a painful journey toward the truth.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940184546155
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	01/07/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
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About the Author

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian author, regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909. His works include the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina and novellas such as Hadji Murad and The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

Date of Birth:

September 9, 1828

Date of Death:

November 20, 1910

Place of Birth:

Tula Province, Russia

Place of Death:

Astapovo, Russia

Education:

Privately educated by French and German tutors; attended the University of Kazan, 1844-47