The Death Of Ivan Ilyich

This translation was first published in 2009 in The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, and now appears in stand-alone edition for the first time. Ivan Ilyich is a man who has spent his life focused on his career as a bureaucrat and emotionally detached from his wife and children; after an accident he finds himself in mid-life on the brink of death, which he sees as a terrible injustice. Face to face with his mortality, Ivan begins to question everything he has believed about the meaning of life. A masterpiece of psychological realism and philosophical profundity, Tolstoy's most famous story is an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption.