The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140449617 (0140449612)
Publish date: May 27th 2008
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
The story "The Death of Ivan Ilych" is one of my favorite stories ever written. Everything about it is so true. Tolstoy had that knack of speaking plain truth about subjects like death and war that we almost instinctively idealize for ourselves in our thoughts and writings, so that the simple trut...