The Death of Ivan Ilych

Complete and unabridged paperback edition. The Death of Ivan Ilych, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. "Usually classed among the best examples of the novella", The Death of Ivan Ilych tells the story of a high-court judge in 19th-century Russia and his sufferings and death from a terminal illness. Description from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.