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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't actually read The Death of Ivan Ilych in this book, I read it in Religion from Tolstoy to Camus. But I was at a funeral yesterday and thinking about this story; it's brilliant enough to merit a review of its own anyway. <br/><br/>The Death of Ivan Ilych, though it started off slow for me,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65696678">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, the existential angst of nothing in life, nothing in death. Started wryly, ended with a whine. Is it fair to call this bad Camus, or Kafkaesque (no insult meant to Senor K.)? <br/><br/>This lacked the lushness of Anna Karenina, but inhabited a starker, emptier world. It's a strange trade off, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37002773">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tolstoy's characterizations are absolutely masterful - many things may have changed since the 19th century when he was writing, but the complexities of human emotion remain the same.  <br/><br/>I've read 2/4 of the short stories in this book, and I was impressed by both of them.  Family Happiness ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35707546">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[These stories as the ones you wish you could read in its original language. Having never read Tolstoy, I will always wonder (when I finally get to the larger novels) whether this was a good idea or not to start with. As I have read, these stories mark the late and spiritual change that Tolstoy exper...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30201719">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Out of the 4 shorts in the book, I read The Death of Ivan Ilych and Master and Man; both of which I found to be excellent reads.<br/><br/>The Death of Ivan Illych was very good due to it's ability to insert you into the mind of Ivan Illych and his acquaintances....in the mid-1800's....<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28430355">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, impressively short for Tolstoy, is a lovely, terse look at life and death and the flow from one to the other. I like to look at it in four parts: Life (the distraction of), Initial reaction to death, Realization of the lie, and the Acceptance of death. <br/><br/>Life<br/>“But on the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14063302">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Masterpiece, masterpiece, almost-masterpiece, minor masterpiece: that's how I'd rank the four stories contained in this collection (&quot;Family Happiness,&quot; &quot;The Death of Ivan Ilych,&quot; &quot;The Kreutzer Sonata,&quot; and &quot;Master and Man.&quot;)<br/>There's a puritanical strain t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9352978">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tolstoy cracks me up. Sometimes his prose is so modern, so spot-on, so genius, so undoubtedly right, that I chuckle as I'm reading. I love when he writes things like, &quot;Of course as soon as he left the room, they all began to talk about him. (This is paraphrased.)&quot; Or even better, &quot;Bes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6901131">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[By far, the most accessible Tolstoy. This book is an easy, bare bones read that is unlike Tolstoy's more stylized grandiose works and it is precisely that bare bones wordsmithery that sets an eerie, matter-of-fact tone of death that the author intended to convey.<br/><br/>So intriguing to me in my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1935495">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The previous history of Ivan Ilych was the simplest, the most ordinary, and the most awful.&quot;<br/><br/>Brilliant. Tolstoy tackles raw emotion in a powerful, tasteful form. I put off reading this one for quite some time out of fear but I should have known that I could trust Tolstoy. This ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44335365">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Kreutzer Sonata was my favorite. Tolstoy gets up on a soap box and explains how our oversexualized culture leads to unhappiness. I couldn't put it down til I finished this story.<br/><br/>The Death of Ivan Ilych was good too, great insight to the lonliness of death and dying. Sad, I guess, but...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46438614">more...</a>]]></body>
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