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As the pair become increasingly lost they too must grapple with the possibility of their mortality
I thought this story would be the gem of the book but then i was really taken by surprise with the final story the forged coupo... Read More
While the first few stories were a little bit of a chore to get through the title story was magnificent
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Tolstoys brief novella death of ivan ilyich is one of the most compact and brilliant meditations on the meaning of death in literature
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Master and man is also a wonderful novella filled with stark realistic depictions of the russian peasantry as a greedy landowner drags his obedient servant on a journey into a night blizzard to claim more property
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Pasternak has provided competent though clunky translations of tolstoys original russian
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Doii is barely over 50pgs but wow
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It is impossible to fully evaluate the success of a persons life until the person is dead
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Thus the death of ivan ilych is really an examination of an only outwardly successful life
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We read of the ridiculous selfcentered inept medical specialists who treated him as they would treat any other person improperly
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The book in short is a comment on everyone and it is a dramatic delightful fictional version of the pessimistic attitude of the biblical ecclesiastes who proclaimed all is vanity