Description: Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought--until death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality.
Review Quotes: "Excellent. . . . The duo has managed to convey the rather simple elegance of Tolstoy's prose." --The New Criterion
"[Tolstoy's] late style is leaner, his forms more spare, but this is also the economy of achieved mastery. He does more with less, and the Tolstoyan sounds, instantly recognizable, are still there. . . . [Pevear and Volokhonsky's] new version is more flexible, individuated, immediate." --The Nation"The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories is a great collection well translated. As a lover of Tolstoy's work, one couldn't ask for more, and I can't recommend it highly enough." --André Alexis, The Globe and Mail