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The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Tolstoy

Form
Form Novella
Year
Year 1886
Originally in
Originally in Russian
Pages
Pages 70

A successful judge who did everything properly is felled by a pain no doctor can name, and in dying discovers, too late for everything but honesty, that his correct life was never lived.

The previous history of Ivan Ilyitch was the simplest, the most ordinary, and the most awful.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy

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