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The Death of Ivan Ilyich audiobook
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrator: Simon Prebble
- Length: 2 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich Audiobook Summary
Hailed as one of the world’s masterpieces of psychological realism, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high-court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?
The first part of the story portrays Ivan Ilyich’s colleagues and family after he has died as they discuss the effect of his death on their careers and fortunes. In the second part, Tolstoy reveals the life of the man whose death seems so trivial. The perfect bureaucrat, Ilyich treasured his orderly domestic and office routine. Diagnosed with an incurable illness, he at first denies the truth but is influenced by the simple acceptance of his servant boy, and he comes to embrace the boy’s belief that death is natural and not shameful. He comforts himself with happy memories of childhood and gradually realizes that he has ignored all his inner yearnings as he tried to do what was expected of him.
Will Ilyich be able to come to terms with himself before his life ebbs away?
This short novel was the artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy’s own life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction. A thoroughly absorbing glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich Audiobook Narrator
Simon Prebble is the narrator of The Death of Ivan Ilyich audiobook that was written by Leo Tolstoy
Simon Prebble has worked extensively on British and American television as both actor and narrator.
About the Author(s) of The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy is the author of The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich Full Details
| Narrator | Simon Prebble |
| Length | 2 hours 35 minutes |
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 25, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781481540216 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Death of Ivan Ilyich is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Classics
Additional info
The publisher of the The Death of Ivan Ilyich is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781481540216.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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