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In these six late stories Tolstoy explores human relationships and moral choices, raising profound questions about life in gripping fictional form. 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' is an existential masterpiece, a harrowing tale of the final illness and death of a bourgeois lawyer. Newly translated, and with a wide-ranging Introduction.

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'no one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied'As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' and the other works in this volume, Tolstoy conjures characters who, tested to the limit, reveal glorious and unexpected reserves of courage or baseness of a near inhuman kind. Two vivid parables and 'The Forged Coupon',a tale of criminality, explore class relations after the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 and the connection between an ethical life and worldly issues. In 'Master and Workman' Tolstoy creates one of his mostgripping dramas about human relationships put to the test in an extreme situation. 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' is an existential masterpiece, a biting satire that recounts with extraordinary power the final illness and death of a bourgeois lawyer.In his Introduction Andrew Kahn explores Tolstoy's moral concerns and the stylistic features of these late stories, sensitively translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 yearsOxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus awealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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A new translation of one of Tolstoy's most famous novellas. This volume also includes 5 other late, great stories.

Author Biography

Nicolas Pasternak Slater has translated several works by Boris Pasternak, most recently The Family Correspondence, 1921-1960 (Hoover Press, 2010). For Oxford World's Classics he has translated Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time.Andrew Kahn has written widely on Russian literature. His books include The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin (2006) and Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence (OUP, 2008, pbk 2012). For Oxford World's Classics he has edited Pushkin's The Queen of Spades and Other Stories, Montesquieu's Persian Letters. and Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time.

Table of Contents

IntroductionNote on the Text and TranslationSelect BibliographyA Chronology of Leo TolstoyThe Two Old MenHow Much Land Does a Man Need?The Forged CouponMaster and WorkmanAlyosha PotThe Death of Ivan IlyichExplanatory Notes

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In these six late stories Tolstoy explores human relationships and moral choices, raising profound questions about life in gripping fictional form.

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'no one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied'As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' and the other works in this volume, Tolstoy conjures characters who, tested to the limit, reveal glorious and unexpected reserves of courage or baseness of a near inhuman kind. Two vivid parables and 'The Forged Coupon',a tale of criminality, explore class relations after the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 and the connection between an ethical life and worldly issues. In 'Master and Workman' Tolstoy creates one of his mostgripping dramas about human relationships put to the test in an extreme situation. 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' is an existential masterpiece, a biting satire that recounts with extraordinary power the final illness and death of a bourgeois lawyer.In his Introduction Andrew Kahn explores Tolstoy's moral concerns and the stylistic features of these late stories, sensitively translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 yearsOxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus awealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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A new translation of one of Tolstoy's most famous novellas, together with five other late, great stories.A unique selection of tales on moral themes which together explore philosophical and social questions in the most powerful, universal fashion, demonstrating Tolstoy's artistry and deepest concerns.'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' is rightly regarded as a masterpiece, a searing depiction of mortality translated here with accuracy and sensitivity.The wide-ranging Introduction draws on important new research on the impact of philosophy and science on Tolstoy's view of what it means to be human; it considers the historical and social context of the works, their thematic concerns, and their qualities of form and characterization.The edition includes a useful chronology, up-to-date bibliography, and notes.

Details ISBN0199669880 Author Andrew Kahn Year 2015 ISBN-10 0199669880 ISBN-13 9780199669882 Format Paperback Translator Nicolas Pasternak Slater Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Andrew Kahn DEWEY 891.733 Media Book Edition Description Revised Language English Short Title DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH & OTH-REV Affiliation University of Oxford UK Release Date 2015-01-08 NZ Release Date 2015-01-08 Pages 272 Publisher Oxford University Press Series Oxford World's Classics Publication Date 2015-01-08 Imprint Oxford University Press Audience General AU Release Date 2015-01-14 We've got this

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