The Death Of Ivan Ilyich And Other Stories Leo Tolstoy Penguin Classics Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Essays Literary Reference

The Death Of Ivan Ilyich And Other Stories Is A Collection That Emerged From Profound Spiritual Crisis During Which Leo Tolstoy Believed He Had Encountered Itself This Penguin Classics Edition Translated With An Introduction By Anthony Briggs David Mcduff Ronald Wilks These Seven Compelling Explore In Very Different Ways Tolstoy\ S Preoccupation Mortality \ Ilyich\ Devastating Account Man Fighting His Inevitable End Asks Existential Question: Why Must Good Person Be Taken Before Time? Polikushka\ Light-Fingered Drunk\ Chance To Prove Himself Has Tragic Repercussions While Three Deaths\ Depicts Last Moments Aristocrat Peasant Tree Forged Coupon\ Shows Seemingly Minor Offence Leads Inexorably Ever More Horrific Crimes Tales About Soldiers After Ball\ Wood-Felling\ Raid\ Portrays Brutality All Too Often Accompanies Military Life Translations Capture Powerful Vivid Prose Also Includes New Discussing Breakdown Effect On Writing As Well Chronology Further Reading Notes (1828-1910) Was Born At Yasnaya Polyana Central Russia Led Wasteful Idleness Until 1851 When Travelled Caucasus Joined Army Older Brother Crimean War Marrying Sofya Behrs 1862 Settled Down Managing Estates Two Best-Known Novels Peace (1869) Anna Karenina (1878) 1884 Experienced Becoming Extreme Moralist Rejecting State Church Private Property Novel Resurrection (1900) Written Raise Money For Doukhobor Sect Christian Spiritualists If You Enjoyed Might Like Fyodor Dostoyevsky\ Crime Punishment Available Σελίδες: 352 Διαστάσεις: 12 8X12 8Cm