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Publisher: Penguin
Author: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780140449617
Year: 2008
Format: Paperback
Short stories, Classics
Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
by
Leo Tolstoy
Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by
Leo Tolstoy
Summary
These seven compelling stories explore, in very different ways, Tolstoy's preoccupation with mortality. 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' is a devastating account of a man fighting his inevitable end, and asks the existential question: why must a good person be taken before his time? In 'Polikushka', a light-fingered drunk's chance to prove himself has tragic repercussions, while 'Three Deaths' depicts the last moments of an aristocrat, a peasant and a tree, and 'The Forged Coupon' shows a seemingly minor offence that leads inexorably to ever more horrific crimes. And in three tales about soldiers, 'After the Ball', 'The Wood-felling' and 'The Raid', Tolstoy portrays the brutality that all too often accompanies military life.