- Published: 3 April 2008
- ISBN: 9780141912455
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's fiction by the acclaimed duo behind War and Peace.
This edition includes: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Happy Ever After, and The Cossacks. Mortality was one of Tolstoy's most persistent themes, and all of the stories in this volume are connected by this preoccupation, along with the author's simultaneous attempt to help us improve our lives.
- Published: 3 April 2008
- ISBN: 9780141912455
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
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About the author
Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married, had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway station of Astapovo.