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The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Ian Dreiblatt.

Title
The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Ian Dreiblatt.
Author
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910
Publication
  • Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House Pub., 2008.
  • ©2008

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Additional Authors
Dreiblatt, Ian, 1980-
Description
106 pages; 18 cm
Summary
Here in a vibrant new translation, the tale of a judge who slowly comes to understand that his illness is fatal was inspired by Tolstoy's observation at his local train station of hundreds of shackled prisoners being sent off to Siberia, many for petty crimes. When he learned that the sentencing judge had died, Tolstoy was roused to consider the judge's thoughts during his final days--a study on the acceptance of mortality only deepened by the death, during its writing, of one of Tolstoy's own young children.--
Series Statement
  • The art of the novella
  • Melville House classics
Uniform Title
  • Smertʹ Ivana Ilʹicha. English
  • Art of the novella
  • Melville House classics
Alternative Title
Smertʹ Ivana Ilʹicha.
Subject
  • Sick > Fiction
  • Death > Fiction
  • Meaning (Psychology) > Fiction
  • Death
  • Mort > Romans, nouvelles, etc
  • Signification (Psychologie) > Romans, nouvelles, etc
  • Mort
  • deaths
  • Meaning (Psychology)
  • Sick
  • Russia > Fiction
  • Russia
  • Soviet Union
Genre/Form
  • Fictional Work
  • novels.
  • Psychological fiction
  • Fiction
  • Novels
  • Romans.
Note
  • "First published in Russian in 1886"--title-page verso.
  • "There is no explanation"--page [4] of cover.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781933633541
  • 1933633549
LCCN
2008009409
OCLC
182737013
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library