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    The Death of Ivan Ilyitch
    The Death of Ivan Ilyitch
    The Death of Ivan Ilyitch
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    The Death of Ivan Ilyitch

    Written by Leo Tolstoy

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    The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is the story of a socially ambitious middle-aged judge who contracts an unexplained and untreatable illness. As Ivan Ilyitch is forced to face the death he fears, he asks himself whether the life he thought was so correct was, in fact, a moral life after all. Written after Tolstoy's religious conversion, the novella is widely considered to be one of his masterpieces. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Leo Tolstoy

    Leo Tolstoy grew up in Russia, raised by a elderly aunt and educated by French tutors while studying at Kazen University before giving up on his education and volunteering for military duty. When writing his greatest works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy drew upon his diaries for material. At eighty-two, while away from home, he suffered from declining health and died in Astapovo, Riazan in 1910.

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      Not a comfortable book to read, but an important one. Lots to mull over afterward.