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The death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy: What is it all for?
In Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich, the main character’s mind tends to wander in both time and space. "In court he found his mind wandering; he would be miles away, wondering whether to have ...
Leo Tolstoy, trans. from the Russian by Peter Carson. Norton/Liveright, $23.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-87140-426-8 This wonderful modern edition of Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich appears side by side ...
Forbes: Ah, Look At All The Lonely People: Tolstoy's The Death Of Ivan Ilyich
Every few years, but especially when things are, at least by society’s standards, humming along nicely for me, I reread Tolstoy’s novella, The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886), to ensure I have not ...
Ah, Look At All The Lonely People: Tolstoy's The Death Of Ivan Ilyich
Only when being face-to-face with the inevitability of death can some people discover what life truly means. Such is the case with the strikingly unexceptional middle-aged judge Ivan Ilyich, who has ...
Leo Tolstoy in 1897. (F. W. Taylor/U.S. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS) With Thanksgiving having just passed, I find myself recounting my blessings, while also reconsidering my priorities and the trajectory of ...
Five years ago, after extensive research, Ernest J. Simmons began his two-volume life and appraisal of Russia’s great writer, Leo Tolstoy. In the first half of this biography, chapters of which were ...