The Death of Ivan Ilyich

<p>Tolstoy&#146;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.<br><br>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. <i>The Death of Ivan Ilyich </i>is a masterpiece of psychological realism and philosophical profundity that has inspired generations of readers.</p>