The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Author/Contributor(s):	Tolstoy, Leo; Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa
Publisher:	Vintage
Date:	10/2/2012
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

An intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption, here in a powerful translation by the award-winning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

Ivan Ilyich is a middle-aged man who has spent his life focused on his career as a bureaucrat and emotionally detached from his wife and children. After an accident he finds himself on the brink of an untimely death, which he sees as a terrible injustice. Face to face with his mortality, Ivan begins to question everything he has believed about the meaning of life. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a masterpiece of psychological realism and philosophical profundity that has inspired generations of readers.