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Title: The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maud, J. D. Duff, Aylmer Maude ISBN: 0-451-52880-8 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Bubble of Life framed Forever
Comment: In this seemingly monotonous novella, Tolstoy approaches death with a fresh view for his contemporaries. Life, says Tolstoy, is nothing but a long stretched road of regulations, of normalities, and of ordinance. Ivan Ilych, a prominent official has led a glamorious life until he is struck by the notion of the transitory life. As he lay dying, the only pleasantry he could recall is from his distant childhood when his path was clear and his vision unclouded by ambition. Modern society is indeed a fierce experiementation ground for Social Darwanism: only the stronger survive, and the stronger pays the ultimate price with their soul in order to sustain the forever momentum of the conformist world. Death in no longer an end, it is the beginning, it is the resurrection Ivan Ilych could not achieve during his lifetime when he was dazzled by the illusions of life. But what of that life? He never lived as a person, instead, along w/ other toiling automaton striving to shed individuality in order to paint a great picture of unity, Ivan Ilych glided across time to reach the end without having once set foot on his path.
Rating: 5
Summary: If only I could give it more stars
Comment: Death of Ivan Ilich is one of the greatest things ever written! It follows the life story of Ivan Ilich but specificly his dying.This story is a lesson for life, for everybody that reads it,because it demonstrates how a person can make all the sociably acceptable choices yet all the wrong ones ,personaly.Ivan Ilich did everyting that was expected of him,and what he expected of himself, yet,he never knew that he never really lived,that he was never happy.That is to say he never knew it, until it was too late,until he was about to die.This story,for me at least, is not about death as it is about life.It's about doing all the right things yet finding out you are all alone in the world.Nobody really loves you and you don't love anyone.You("IVAN")never liked your job and never had any real friends and the last time you were really happy was when you were four years old.The worse thing is that you can't do anything about it,now!Tolstoy manages to take the reader and lead him through Ivan's life until his last breath,until you feel, you almost die with him.It is an incredible experience that will make you stop and think about life and what you want to make of it before it's too late.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Masterpiece
Comment: I bought this book to test the waters before I tackled something big like his War and Peace, and to gain appreciation for such a well respected author before a teacher or professor had the opportunity to shove it down my throat. I am very glad I did!
Tolstoy has a gift for words that draws the readers in and allows him to project his character's emotions onto them. He has the capacity to be romantic without being mushy or dark without being overbearing. At the end, he left me with a sincere impression, profound respect and still-lingering admiration.
This book belongs on everyone's bookshelves.
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Title: The Plague by Albert Camus ISBN: 0679720219 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 07 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky ISBN: 067973452X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Mona Simpson ISBN: 067978330X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 10 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: A Guided Tour of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism by Christopher Biffle, Julius J. Jackson ISBN: 1559340967 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 09 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy ISBN: 0060830719 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 05 August, 1967 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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