Excerpt from La Mort d'Ivan IliitchPiotte Ivanovitch et ma femme sera tres contente. Elle ne pourra plus dire que je n'ai rien fait pour ses pa rents.

La Mort D'Ivan Iliitch

In Petersburg in the eighteen-forties a surprising event occurred. An officer of the Cuirassier Life Guards, a handsome prince who everyone predicted would become aide-de-camp to the Emperor Nicholas I. and have a brilliant career, left the service, broke off his engagement to a beautiful maid of honour, a favourite of the Empress's, gave his small estate to his sister, and retired to a monastery to become a monk.

This event appeared extraordinary and inexplicable to those who did not know his inner motives, but for Prince Stepan Kasatsky himself it all occurred so naturally that he could not imagine how he could have acted otherwise.

Father Sergius

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise, he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?This short novel was an artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction.A thoroughly absorbing and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.

La mort d'Ivan Ilitch

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La Mort d'Ivan Ilitch

"Dernières Paroles" de Léon Tolstoï. 1873-1877.

Dernières paroles

Par le comte Léon TolstoïDate de l'édition originale: 1891.

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La Mort D'Ivan Iliitch

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