The death of Ivan Ilyich and other stories / Leo Tolstoy ; introduction and notes by Dr T.C.B. Cook.

By:

Tolstoy, Leo, 1828-1910

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Hertfordshire : Wordsworth, 2004.Description: xxix, 256 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9781840224535

Subject(s):

Tolstoy, Leo, 1828-1910 -- Translations into English

DDC classification:

891.733

Contents:

Introduction -- Family Happiness -- The Death of Ivan Ilyich -- The Kreutzer Sonata -- Afterword by the author -- The Devil -- Variation of the conclusion of 'The Devil' -- Notes.

Summary: "In the early story Family Happiness, Tolstoy, explores the subject of courtship and marriage from the point of view of a young wife; in The Kreutzer Sonata he gives us a terrifying study of marital breakdown; in The Devil, he depicts the powerful pressures of sexual temptation; and in perhaps the finest of all, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, he portrays the long agony of a man gradually coming to terms with his own mortality." -- Provided by the publisher.

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Introduction -- Family Happiness -- The Death of Ivan Ilyich -- The Kreutzer Sonata -- Afterword by the author -- The Devil -- Variation of the conclusion of 'The Devil' -- Notes.

"In the early story Family Happiness, Tolstoy, explores the subject of courtship and marriage from the point of view of a young wife; in The Kreutzer Sonata he gives us a terrifying study of marital breakdown; in The Devil, he depicts the powerful pressures of sexual temptation; and in perhaps the finest of all, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, he portrays the long agony of a man gradually coming to terms with his own mortality." -- Provided by the publisher.

Translated from the Russian.