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ISBN-10: 0307951332
ISBN-13: 9780307951335
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 10/02/2012
Dimensions: 8.01" L, 5.40" W, 0.17" H

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Translator: Richard Pevear
Translator: Larissa Volokhonsky

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Overview

Tolstoy’s most famous novella is an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption, here in a powerful translation by the award-winning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

Ivan Ilyich is a middle-aged man who has spent his life focused on his career as a bureaucrat and emotionally detached from his wife and children. After an accident he finds himself on the brink of an untimely death, which he sees as a terrible injustice. Face to face with his mortality, Ivan begins to question everything he has believed about the meaning of life. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a masterpiece of psychological realism and philosophical profundity that has inspired generations of readers.

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"The English-speaking world is indebted to these two translators." –Orlando Figes, The New York Review of Books

"Excellent. . . . The duo has managed to convey the rather simple elegance of Tolstoy's prose." –The New Criterion

"Pevear and Volokhonsky's new version is . . . flexible individuated, immediate." –The Nation

"Well translated. As a lover of Tolstoy's work, one couldn't ask for more, and I can't recommend it highly enough." –André Alexis, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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Details

ISBN-10: 0307951332
ISBN-13: 9780307951335
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 10/02/2012
Dimensions: 8.01" L, 5.40" W, 0.17" H
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