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Leo Tolstoy wrote The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886. It is a work of classics and is rated 'Essential Read' in our catalogue.

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Name: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Author: Leo Tolstoy

by Leo Tolstoy · 1886

Classics · ranked #75 in category

Ivan Ilyich, a respected judge, is dying slowly and painfully. The novella traces his gradual recognition that his respectable, successful life has been hollow — that he has lived for social approval rather than for anything genuine. Tolstoy's late masterwork is one of the most concentrated and devastating accounts of the relationship between how we live and how we die.

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