num_pages: 116
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 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.
language: English
title: The Death of Ivan Ilyich/Master and Man
titlecomplete: The Death of Ivan Ilyich/Master and Man
genres: Short Stories, Russia, Novella, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Russian Literature, Classics, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 1146
publisher: Modern Library