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The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Penguin Red Classics) - Leo Tolstoy

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Manufacturer : Penguin Books Ltd
Release date : 26 January 2006
ISBN-10 : 0141023600 |

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The Death Of Ivan Ilyich

Posted : 3 years, 1 month ago at Nov 18 6:52
Beginning, as it does, with the death of Ivan Ilyich, you wouldn't think there was much left to say but Leo Tolstoy's novella, The Death Of Ivan Ilyich, then winds the narrative back to an earlier part of the character's life and lets it unravel from there. Ivan Ilyich is a high court judge with a wife and family who takes a fall one day whilst hanging curtains, and from there a curious illness befalls him that no amount of doctors can properly diagnose. All they are in mutual agreement of is that his condition is terminal, although they prefer not to tell him this and insist that their treatments will one day have him walking again. The diagnosis forces Ilyich to consider his own mortality and to understand why he should die: "In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but not ...Read more

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