Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch and Other Stories
1902 · 294 pages · Also in this volume: «Three Deaths», «Where Love Is, There God Is Also», «The Two Old Men», «The Three Hermits», «How Much Land Does a Man Need?», «The Godson», «Ivan the Fool»
- Author
- Leo Tolstoy
- Edition
- The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï, Volume XIV
- Published
- New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902
- Pages
- 294
- File
- DjVu, 5 MB
- Text search
- yes
- Rights
- public domain
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About the book
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, published in 1886, is one of Leo Tolstoy’s most famous shorter works. Ivan Ilyich is a judge who has lived a correct, comfortable and entirely ordinary life; after a minor fall he grows ill, and as he slowly dies he is forced to ask whether any of it was the right way to live. The story is often read as one of the most searching portraits of dying in all of literature.
The rest of the volume collects the tales Tolstoy wrote in the 1880s after his religious crisis, many in the simple style of folk stories meant for ordinary readers: “Where Love Is, There God Is Also” about a cobbler waiting for a visit from Christ, “The Two Old Men” on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, “The Three Hermits”, “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” about a peasant’s hunger for land, “The Godson” and the satirical tale of Ivan the Fool and his two brothers. The earlier “Three Deaths” (1859) is here too.
The volume names no translator. It belongs to Scribner’s 22-volume set of Tolstoy’s novels and other works (1899–1902), edited by Nathan Haskell Dole, and its text is copyrighted by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
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About this edition
Volume XIV of The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï, published in New York by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1902; the verso of the title page reads “Copyright, 1899, by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.” It has an unsigned introduction to the stories and a contents list, and the tales carry their dates of composition under the titles. The scan, digitised by Microsoft, shows library marks on the title page and has a searchable text layer.
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