false 18386 58 By the time he dies, Ivan Ilych has come to understand the worthlessness of his life. Paradoxically, this elevates him above the common man, who avoids the reality of death and the effort it takes to make life worthwhile. In Tolstoy's own words, "Ivan Ilyich's life had been . . . most ordinary and therefore most terrible." Newly designed and typeset in a modern 5.5-by-8.5-inch format by Waking Lion Press. 234915 book 1886 The Death of Ivan Ilych total:3635|5:1032|4:1323|3:994|2:239|1:47| 3635 13959 4761 257 5 3 false false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 08:06:33 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 19:06:59 -0800 2009 Porque se entera de que todo ha sido una mentira, qué puede ser más terrible que eso? Es de una tristeza profunda y cansada, llena de desilusión y de tiempo perdido.
Se enferma sin darse cuenta, pe...more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 27 16:55:55 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 27 17:05:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Oct 07 01:35:35 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 07 01:46:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 06:55:17 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 14:49:25 -0800 2009 The Death of Ivan Ilych, I read it differently. As a college student I read it as a description of an experience for someone elderly, an experience distant, almost unreal, so far in the future as to be strange, almost surreal. Reading it again during ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 08:19:06 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 08:42:27 -0700 2007 (Unanticipated because I'd assumed it would always be Fyodor for me.)
Does this mean it's time to tackle Anna K.?
After that,...more...]]> 3 2 false false Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 03 11:34:28 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 28 10:48:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Oct 06 14:45:14 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 14:45:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 1 true false Sat Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 18:41:42 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 18:46:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 12:00:03 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 12:04:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991 Fri Nov 14 16:15:41 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 14 16:15:41 -0800 2008 I know, not very helpful, but like anyone needs a review of freakin' Tolstoy or a...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jun 24 16:11:33 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 10:49:17 -0700 2007 Anna Karenina is so bloody long). In The Death of Ivan Ilyich his attention is focused so sharply on Ivan, and specifically on his inner life, that the character nearly takes on a ...more...]]> 3 0 false true Sat Nov 14 03:16:37 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 03:17:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 10:23:40 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 11:11:55 -0700 2009
Tolstoy's main target here is dishonesty and hypocrisy. This is ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 07 10:39:45 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 11:12:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 03 10:02:49 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 10:11:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 01:53:20 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 02:20:20 -0700 2009 5
This simple and short tale is about the death of a judge named Ivan Ilych. Specifically, it ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1995 Thu Jul 05 20:36:38 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 20:38:20 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 02:44:50 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 06:09:04 -0700 2009 م...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Mar 28 13:33:04 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 13:38:41 -0700 2009
I like a comment one reviewer made, that it was like Tolstoy himself came within the...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 14:54:45 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 16:30:03 -0700 2009 A Short Story Experiment for Tolstoy and Hemingway Fans Alike

Hemingway’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (1954): “How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers i...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5215093