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The Death of Ivan Ilyich

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241251768

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 161mm x 10mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 99g

  • RRP: £2.00

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

'It is only a bruise'

A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident...

One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241251768

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 161mm x 10mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 99g

  • RRP: £2.00

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About the Author

Leo Tolstoy

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.

Leo Tolstoy

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