The Death of Ivan Ilyich: And Other Stories

ISBN-13: 9781554813223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 184 str.

Leo Tolstoy; Kirsten Lodge; Kirsten Lodge

Opis

Brings together Tolstoy's 1886 masterpiece and several shorter works that connect with it in thought-provoking ways. The stories are accompanied by a selection of contextual materials, including nineteenth-century reviews, excerpts from Tolstoy's letters concerning death, excerpts from a pamphlet he wrote after witnessing the slaughtering of livestock, and a portfolio of relevant photographs.

Spis treści

• Introduction
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich
• Strider
• Three Deaths
• In Context
• Killing Animals, Eating Animals
• from Leo Tolstoy, The First Step
• from Howard Williams, Preface to The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-Eating (1882)
• From Tolstoy’s Letters Concerning Death
• Letter of Oct. 17, 1860 to Afanasy Fet (on the death of Tolstoy’s brother Nikolai from tuberculosis
• Letter of May 1, 1868 to Aleksandra Tolstaya, Tolstoy’s grandmother (on “Three Deaths”)
• Other Writings by Tolstoy
• from Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Chapter 27: Grief (1852)
• from Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1878
• from Leo Tolstoy, Confession (1879)
• from Leo Tolstoy, “Notes of a Madman” (unfinished; begun in 1884 and published posthumously)
• Critical Reception
• from Nikolai Leskov, “On the Kitchen Muzhik and Other Matters: Notes on Certain Reviews of Count Leo Tolstoy’s Work” (1886)
• from Dmitry Pisarev, “‘Three Deaths’: A Story by Count Leo Tolstoy” (1859)
• Nineteenth-Century Images