The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780199669882 (0199669880)
ASIN: 0199669880
Publish date: 2015-03-01
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages no: 256
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...