{"product_id":"death-of-ivan-ilyich-other-stories","title":"Death Of Ivan Ilyich \u0026 Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLeo Tolstoy is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations that have stood the test of time. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the early story \u003cem\u003eFamily Happiness\u003c\/em\u003e, Tolstoy explores courtship and marriage from the point of view of a young wife. In \u003cem\u003eThe Kreutzer Sonata\u003c\/em\u003e he gives us a terrifying study of marital breakdown, in \u003cem\u003eThe Devil\u003c\/em\u003e a powerful depiction of the power of sexual temptation, and, in perhaps the finest of all, \u003cem\u003eThe Death of Ivan Ilyich\u003c\/em\u003e, he portrays the long agony of a man gradually coming to terms with his own mortality. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis volume also includes an Introduction and Notes written specially for this Wordsworth edition by Dr Tim Cook, formely lecturer in literature at the Universities of Kingston and Ulster.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peribo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48718084538682,"sku":"9781840224535","price":18.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0868\/6449\/4906\/files\/9781840224535.jpg?v=1786930749","url":"https:\/\/titlemusicfilmbooks.com\/products\/death-of-ivan-ilyich-other-stories","provider":"TITLE ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}