The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Table of contents

• Biography and Background
• Chronology of Tolstoy’s major literary works
• Synopsis
• The Theme of Death
• Style
• Two Possible Interpretations
• Further reading

More by Leo Tolstoy

• Anna Karenina
• War and Peace
• The Long Exile

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• A Hero of our Time — Mikhail Lermontov
• Moses and Monotheism — Sigmund Freud
• Aeneid — Virgil
• Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert
• Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton
• Barchester Towers — Anthony Trollope