The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories

By:

Tolstoy, Leo

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Wordsworth Editions Ltd; 2004Description: 256ISBN:

978-1-8402-2453-5

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Summary: In the early story Family Happiness, Tolstoy explores 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 a powerful depiction of the power 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.

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	Zaccheus Onumba Dibiaezue Memorial Libraries	823 TOL	Available		23635

In the early story Family Happiness, Tolstoy explores 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 a powerful depiction of the power 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.

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