The death of ivan ilyich, paperback/leo tolstoy

Tolstoys most famous novella is an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption, here in a powerful translation by the award-winning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

Ivan Ilyich is a middle-aged 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 on the brink of an untimely 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.

The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a masterpiece of psychological realism and philosophical profundity that has inspired generations of readers.