{"product_id":"the-death-of-ivan-ilyich-paperback","title":"The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeo Tolstoy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRichard Pevear\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eLarissa Volokhonsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTolstoy's most famous novella is an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption, here in a powerful translation by the award-winning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIvan Ilyich is a middle-aged man who has spent his life focused on his career as a bureaucrat and emotionally detached from his wife and children. After an accident he finds himself on the brink of an untimely death, which he sees as a terrible injustice. Face to face with his mortality, Ivan begins to question everything he has believed about the meaning of life. \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Ivan Ilyich \u003c\/i\u003eis a masterpiece of psychological realism and philosophical profundity that has inspired generations of readers.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCount Leo Tolstoy\u003c\/b\u003e (1828-1910) was born in central Russia. After serving in the Crimean War, he retired to his estate and devoted himself to writing, farming, and raising his large family. His novels and outspoken social polemics brought him world fame. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Pevear\u003c\/b\u003e has published translations of Alain, Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Savinio, Pavel Florensky, and Henri Volohonsky, as well as two books of poetry. He has received fellowships or grants for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the French Ministry of Culture. \u003cb\u003eLarissa Volokhonsky\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Leningrad. She has translated works by the prominent Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann and John Meyendorff into Russian. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTogether, Pevear and Volokhonsky have translated\u003ci\u003e Dead Souls\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Collected Tales\u003c\/i\u003e by Nikolai Gogol, \u003ci\u003e The Complete Short Novels of Chekhov\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Demons, The Idiot, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Adolescent\u003c\/i\u003e by Fyodor Dostoevsky. They were twice awarded the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for their version of Dostoevsky's\u003ci\u003e The Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e and for Tolstoy's\u003ci\u003e Anna Karenina\u003c\/i\u003e), and their translation of Dostoevsky's\u003ci\u003e Demons\u003c\/i\u003e was one of three nominees for the same prize. They are married and live in France.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.17 x 8.01 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 02, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52717487096141,"sku":"9780307951335","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/dE02Q1RLSVh1WE1nR1RNcTFrRXJIUT09.webp?v=1762428658","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/the-death-of-ivan-ilyich-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}