The Death of Ivan Ilyich Contributor(s): Tolstoy, Leo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0553210351 ISBN-13: 9780553210354 Publisher: Bantam Classics OUR PRICE: $6.26 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: March 1981 Annotation: Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, 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 is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth? This short novel was the artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction. A thoroughly absorbing and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 00000756 |
Series: Bantam Classics |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 4.3" W x 7.04" (0.14 lbs) 128 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
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Publisher Description: Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, 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 is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth? This short novel was the artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction. A thoroughly absorbing and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation. |