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Ivan Ilych And Us

Ivan Ilych And Us

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Leo Tolstoy

I finished listening today to an audiobook version of Tolstoy’s novella The Death Of Ivan Ilych. You can read an entire English translation here, for free. I had an Audible credit, so I listened to it in the car. It is one of the most beautiful, penetrating things I’ve ever read (“read”).

Ivan Ilych is a successful judge and Russian bourgeois…

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