The Death Of Ivan Ilyich

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504062337
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Ivan Ilyich written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A successful man must face the terror of his own mortality in this masterful nineteenth-century Russian novella by the author of War and Peace. In his later years, Leo Tolstoy began to contemplate the inescapable realities of mortality—its terrifying mystery, its many indignities, and the way it forces one to look back on the legacy and regrets of one’s life. The Death of Ivan Ilyich, widely considered the masterpiece of Tolstoy’s late career, is both a deeply insightful meditation on the final months of a man’s life, and an unsparing critique of conventional middle-class life in nineteenth-century Russia. Ivan Ilyich, a prosperous high-court judge, spends his days pursuing social advancement among his peers and avoiding his loveless marriage. But when a seemingly innocuous injury signals the beginning of a terminal illness, Ilyich begins to see the true worth of his life with tragic clarity.

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Hesperus Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Ivan Ilyich and The Devil written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Tolstoy's most exquisitely constructed novellas is presented here with The Devil,a further work exploring the powerful and destructive nature of obsession. On learning of Ivan Ilyich's sudden demise, his former colleagues begin vying for promotion; it seems in neither life nor death has Ivan Ilyich made any lasting impression. And, as the author takes us back to Ilyich's early days, we are shown a life of futility, emptiness, and spiritual barrenness. Yet, in the end, Tolstoy reveals Ivan Ilyich's final resolute gesture to come to terms with his mortality and to embrace his impending death. Leo Tolstoy wrote two of Russia's greatest novels, Anna Kareninaand War and Peace,as well as many short stories and essays.

Author : David Loy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861716159
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World Is Made of Stories written by David Loy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dynamic and utterly novel presentation, David Loy explores the fascinating proposition that the stories we tell--about what is and is not possible, about ourselves, about right and wrong, life and death, about the world and everything in it--become the very building blocks of our experience and of reality itself. Loy uses an intriguing mixture of quotations from familiar and less-familiar sources and brief stand-alone micro-essays, engaging the reader in challenging and illuminating dialogue. As we come to see that the world is made--in a word--of stories, we come to a richer understanding of that most elusive of Buddhist ideas: shunyata, the "generative emptiness" that is the all-pervading quality inherent to all mental and physical forms in our ever-changing world. Reminiscent of Zen koans and works of sophisticated poetry, this book will reward both a casual read and deep reflection.

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 184749238X
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death of Ivan Ilych written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process. When, after a small accident, he fails to make the expected recovery, it gradually becomes clear that he is soon to die. Ivan Ilyich then starts to question the futility and barrenness of his previous existence, realizing to his horror, as he grapples with the meaning of life and death, that he is totally alone.Included in this volume is another celebrated novella by Tolstoy, The Devil, which addresses the conflicts between desire, social norms and personal conscience, providing at the same time a further exploration of human fear and obsession.

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Pushkin Collection
ISBN 13 : 178227541X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives and Deaths written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Pushkin Collection. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh translations of Tolstoy's four richest shorter works by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk Tolstoy's stories contain many of the most acutely observed moments in his monumental body of work. This new selection of his shorter works, sensitively translated by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk, showcases the peerless economy with which Tolstoy could render the passions and conflicts of a life. These are works that take us from a self-interested judge's agonising deathbed to the bristling social world of horses in a stable yard, from the joyful vanity of youth to the painful doubts of sickness and old age. With unwavering precision, Tolstoy's eye brings clarity and richness to the simplest materials.

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 : 2021052508
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Ivan Ilych written by Leo Tolstoy and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s.

Author : Zoia Eliseyeva
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781523657315
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trilingual Book Russian - English - Spanish the Death of Ivan Ilyich written by Zoia Eliseyeva and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete text trilingual version of the Leo Tolstoy's famous psychological novel: Russian-English-Spanish. It opens as three paragraphs of the three presented languages on one page. In an electronic format it will run with the paragraphs separated by single, and pages by double lines. The book is a deeply psychological story by a literary genius of Tolstoy. It can be read in any combination of these three world languages. The book can be used by students, professors, or anyone who wants to enjoy the three presented languages. The trilingual text is supplied by the author's translation of notes from the original 33-year-old Russian edition (Russian to English), as well as with the comments on some of Tolstoy's vocabulary, and its reflection in the presented translations. Zoia Eliseyeva is a trilingual educator, Russian native speaker in the USA. She has Master's degree in Education and many publications since 1997: Russian and multilingual.

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3986778187
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Confession written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Confession Leo Tolstoy - This short work was originally titled An Introduction to a Criticism of Dogmatic Theology. It is a brief autobiographical story of the author's struggle with a mid-life existential crisis, and describes his search for the answer to the ultimate philosophical question: If God does not exist, since death is inevitable, what is the meaning of life?

Author : Leonid Andreyev
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770488049
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Laugh and The Abyss written by Leonid Andreyev and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonid Andreyev’s The Red Laugh is an experimental depiction of war and its psychological effects, both on those who participate in the fighting and on those who hear of its atrocities from afar. Translated into English for the first time since 1905, it is here paired with a fresh translation of Andreyev’s earlier story “The Abyss,” which caused scandal upon its first publication. This edition provides an illuminating introduction by translator Kirsten Lodge as well as a range of background materials that help set the novel in its historical, literary, and artistic contexts.

Author : Amor Towles
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0091944244
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Songs of St Petersburg written by Amor Towles and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility. 'A comic masterpiece.' The Times 'Winning . . . gorgeous . . . satisfying . . . Towles is a craftsman.' New York Times Book Review 'A work of great charm, intelligence and insight.' Sunday Times 'Everything a novel should be: charming, witty, poetic and generous. An absolute delight.' Mail on Sunday 'If we do a better book than this one on the book club this year we will be very very lucky.' Matt Williams, Radio 2 Book Club 'Abundant in humour, history and humanity' Sunday Telegraph 'Wistful, whimsical and wry.' Sunday Express On 21 June 1922 Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. But instead of being taken to his usual suite, he is led to an attic room with a window the size of a chessboard. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. While Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval, the Count, stripped of the trappings that defined his life, is forced to question what makes us who we are. And with the assistance of a glamorous actress, a cantankerous chef and a very serious child, Rostov unexpectedly discovers a new understanding of both pleasure and purpose.