The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

Informationen zum Autor Leo Tolstoy was born in central Russia on 9 September 1828. In 1852 he published his first work, the autobiographical Childhood . He served in the army during the Crimean War and his Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6) are based on his experiences. His two most popular masterpieces are War and Peace (1864-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-8). He died in 1910. Klappentext A magnificent new translation of one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy's late fiction, and the first major fictional work to be published by the author after his crisis and conversion to Christianity. Zusammenfassung This intensely moving story of Ivan Ilyich's lonely end is one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy's late fiction. The ten other stories in this collection include 'The Kreutzer Sonata', 'The Devil', and 'Hadji Murat' which has been described by Harold Bloom as 'the best story in the world'.

Product details

• Authors: Leo N. Tolstoi, Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy Leo
• Assisted by: Richard Pevear (Translation), Pevear Richard (Translation), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translation), Volokhonsky Larissa (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.11.2010
• EAN: 9780099541066
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954106-6
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 37 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary