Also published as: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Author: Leo Tolstoy Year: 1886 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Classic, Short Stories, Philosophy Culture: Russia Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781600964336 9780615826530 1600964338 0615826539

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise, he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth? This short novel was an artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction. A thoroughly absorbing and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation. Similar books: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Complete Short Novels by Anton Chekhov The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy Ivan the Fool by Leo Tolstoy On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov First Love by Ivan Turgenev The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka