Product Description : The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) No one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitiedAs Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to reevaluate his life searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings In The Death of Ivan Ilyich and the other works in this volume Tolstoy conjures characters who tested to the limit reveal glorious and unexpected reserves of courage or baseness of a near inhuman kind Two vivid parables and The Forged Coupon a tale of criminality explore class relations after the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 and the connection between an ethical life and worldly issues In Master and Workman Tolstoy creates one of his most gripping dramas about human relationships put to the test in an extreme situation The Death of Ivan Ilyich is an existential masterpiece a biting satire that recounts with extraordinary power the final illness and death of a bourgeois lawyerIn his Introduction Andrew Kahn explores Tolstoys moral concerns and the stylistic features of these late stories sensitively translated by Nicolas Pasternak SlaterABOUT THE SERIESFor over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text uptodate bibliographies for further study and much more ( it is an used product)