The death of Ivan Ilyich: and, Master and man

✍ Scribed by Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich; Slater, Ann (transl)

• Book ID: 106913926
• Publisher: Random House, Inc.
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 147 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780679642930

✦ Synopsis

Review

?No one has ever excelled Tolstoy in expressing that specific flavor, the exact quality of a feeling.? ?Isaiah Berlin -- Review

Product Description

This new edition combines Tolstoy’s most famous short tale, The Death of Ivan Ilyich , with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, Master and Man , both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In Ivan Ilyich , a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner and servant must each confront the value of the other as they brave a devastating snowstorm. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of mortality, spiritual redemption, and life’s meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales.

This unique edition also includes a critical Introduction and extensive notes by Ann Pasternak Slater, a Fellow at St. Anne’s College, Oxford.