The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, perhaps the most famous Russian writer in the world, an unmatched prose writer who opened, in the words of V. Nabokov, «a method of depicting life that most accurately corresponds to our idea of it. He is... the only writer I know whose clock neither lags nor races ahead of the countless clocks of his readers... Tolstoy's prose flows in tune with our pulse, his characters move at the same tempo as passersby under our windows while we sit over the book.» The readers are presented with a collection of stories by L. N. Tolstoy, each of which is an undeniable masterpiece that has had an unparalleled influence not only on Russian but also on foreign culture of the 20th century.