From world-renowned novelist Leo Tolstoy comes this story of a worldly careerist who must consider Death for the first time and examine his own mortality.
A thoroughly absorbing and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation..
How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth? This short novel was the artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy\'s life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction.
But one day Death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality.
Hailed as one of the world\'s supreme masterpieces on the subject of Death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his Death so much as a passing thought.
A Bantam Classic edition.
With a superb translation by Lynn Solotaroff, it features an introduction by Ronald Blythe in an exciting new package.
From world-renowned novelist Leo Tolstoy comes this story of a worldly careerist who must consider Death for the first time and examine his own mortality
