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Books : The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)In association with Amazon.comby: Leo Tolstoy  List Price: $11.00 Amazon.com's Price: $8.80 You Save: $2.20 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 3 weeks
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 891.733 EAN: 9780140449617 ISBN: 0140449612 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: May 27, 2008 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Sales Rank: 23485 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Here are some of Tolstoy’s extraordinary short stories, from “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”—in a masterly new translation—to “The Raid,” “The Wood-felling,” “Three Deaths,” “Polikushka,” “After the Ball,” and “The Forged Coupon,” all gripping and eloquent lessons on two of Tolstoy’s most persistent themes: life and death. More experimental than his novels, Tolstoy’s stories are essential reading for anyone interested in his development as one of the major writers and thinkers of his time. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - WonderfulTolstoy's brief novella 'Death of Ivan Ilyich' is one of the most compact and brilliant meditations on the meaning of death in literature. Tolstoy's breathtaking naturalism is truly miraculous. Ivan Ilyich is respectful administrator who is dying a painful death from a malignant tumor. Much as Kafka would later do in 'The Metamorphosis,' the dying man's suffering is nothing more than an annoyance for his friends and family. He spirals into a decline of intense suffering as he must stare into the ... Read More Rating: - Tolstoy Wrote with the Mind of GodMy life would be a poor thing had I never read Tolstoy. Why does Russian translate so very very easily to English? This I found in Russian literature. Rating:  - Terrible translationI am currently reading "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by another translator and it is a remarkable and moving story. However, the translation that is offered in this edition was so awkward that I found it unreadable. The purchase of this edition was a waste of money and it's now sitting on my bookshelf unread. I recommend the translation by Constance Garnett. I hope that Pevar and Volokhonsky (transaltors of War and Peace and Anna Karenina) will release translations of Tolstoy's shorter works. Their ... Read More Rating:  - An Examination of a Soul.An excellent, soulful book in the vein of The Trial, and Crime and Punishment. Vladimir Nabokov sums my views of this Novella quite well. In his lectures on Russian Literature Russian born Novelist and critic Vladimir Nabokov argues that, for Tolstoy, a sinful life is (such as Ivan's was), moral death. Therefore death, the return of the soul to God is, for Tolstoy, moral life . To quote Nabokov: "The Tolstoyan formula is: Ivan lived a bad life and since the bad life is nothing but the death ... Read More Rating: - Powerful and deepTolstoy had a great understanding of the human condition, as it's shown in this complex and thought-provoking novella about the mortality of man. It's the kind of book that, thanks to it's many layers, has to be read over and over. It's amazing how Tolstoy was able to build such an powerful story in only 100 pages, I've seen books with more than 400 pages that didn't have half of the depth he managed to put into this one. Browse for similar items by category:
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