This wonderful modern edition of Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich appears side by side with the autobiographical Confession in a new translation by Peter Carson–perhaps even more remarkable for having been completed as Carson, a famed editor and previous translator of works by Turgenev and Chekhov, was himself dying.... Death has seldom been more starkly or plainly rendered.... Among the best treatments of death and belief in any art form.... A generous remembrance of Peter Carson by Mary Beard and a note comparing past translations complement an accomplishment in literature that belongs in every library.– "Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"