Hailed as one of the best novellas ever published as well as an outstanding triumph of his later fiction, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is Leo Tolstoy-s masterfully crafted story on what it means to face the end.
Ivan Ilyich is dead. Diagnosed just weeks before with an unknown-but terminal-illness, the late Court of Justice spent his final days reflecting on his -most simple and most ordinary--and therefore most terrible-life. He did as was expected: worked an important job, garnered moderate wealth, married a slightly demanding woman, and started a family of his own-but had he ever truly lived?
Inspired by his newfound faith and renewed sense of purpose, Leo Tolstoy-s first major post-conversion work of fiction sees a modern unsentimental man face the reality of his own mortality. Not just the act and process of dying, but the physicality of waking up in a body that is doomed to fail, the actuality of the burden he is becoming to his family, and the vulnerabilit
