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    The Death of Ivan Ilyich: A Leo Tolstoy Short Story
    The Death of Ivan Ilyich: A Leo Tolstoy Short Story
    The Death of Ivan Ilyich: A Leo Tolstoy Short Story
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    The Death of Ivan Ilyich: A Leo Tolstoy Short Story

    Written by Leo Tolstoy

    Narrated by Bill DeWees

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    The brilliance of the story is how a normal bureaucrat, a judge in this case, has a small accident that winds up gradually taking his life. As he deals with this incident, with hope at first, and then despair, he comes to terms with his family, his life, and his mediocrities that we all suffer with except for the exceptional few. This story rings a particularly poignant note for those in early middle age facing the next part of their lives. Tolstoy's story is considered his best. Keywords: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, God Sees the Truth-but Waits, The Kreutzer Sonata, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Gogol.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimply Magazine Inc.
    Release dateApr 28, 2011
    ISBN9781614961024
    The Death of Ivan Ilyich: A Leo Tolstoy Short Story
    Author

    Leo Tolstoy

    Leo Tolstoy grew up in Russia, raised by a elderly aunt and educated by French tutors while studying at Kazen University before giving up on his education and volunteering for military duty. When writing his greatest works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy drew upon his diaries for material. At eighty-two, while away from home, he suffered from declining health and died in Astapovo, Riazan in 1910.

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    • 4/5
      A beautiful short story. Takes you into the life exterior and interior of Ivan. Tolstoy it’s always an immense pleasure to me.
    • 5/5
      tolstoy is timeless: he can speak to any audience across time and space. these two stories are so impressive. i want to read anna karenina next...but maybe i'll go with more short stories first cuz it's kinda long. :-P