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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories: The Raid, Woodfelling, ThreeDeaths, Polikushka, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, After the Ball, The Forged Coupon by Tolstoy Leo

"There was no death. Instead of death there was light."

At the age of forty-one, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) underwent a profound spiritual crisis, from which he emerged believing that he had encountered Death itself. These seven compelling stories explore, in very different ways, his subsequent preoccupation with mortality. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a devestating account of a man fighting his inevitable end, and ask the existential question: why must a good person be taken before his time? In Polikushka a light-fingered drunk's chance to prove himself has tragic repercussions, while Three Deaths depicts the last moments of an aristocrat, a peasant and a tree, and The Forged Coupon shows a seemingly minor offence that leads inexorably to ever more horrific crimes. And in three tales about soldiers, After the Ball, The Wood-felling and The Raid, Tolstoy portrays the brutality that all too often accompanies military life.

The translations by Anthony Briggs, David McDuff and Ronald Wilks capture Tolstoy's powerful, vivid prose. This edition also includes a new introduction by Anthony Briggs discussing Tolstoy's breakdown and the effect this had on his writing, as well as a chronology, further reading and notes.

Author(s): Tolstoy Leo ISBN: 9780140449617 Published: April 2008 Format: Paperback Weight: 258g Dimensions: 129mm x 198mm x 20mm Pages: 352 Condition: BRAND NEW

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