Description: The pinnacle masterpiece of death literature, a book of life written for everyone "War and Peace" used 1.24 million words to answer the meaning of life "Ivan. The Death of Ilyich tells the story in less than 40,000 words. It is one of the "top 100 books of all time" voted by the Nobel Academy. Hemingway, Heidegger, Maupassant, Nabokov, Romain Rolland, Thomas Mann, Tchaikovsky, Rushdie, Milan Kundera, Yann Martel, Naipaul...extremely praised.