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My edition of “The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories” was the Vintage book, translated by Pevear and Volhokonsky. It contains the following stories:
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Prisoner of the Caucasus
The Diary of a Madman
The Kreutzer Sonata
The Devil
Master and Man
Father Sergius
After the Ball
The Forged Coupon
Alyosha the Pot
Hadji Murat
(those that are underlined, I have reviewed separately – follow the link for the review)
There are some definite repeated themes - namely sex, death and religious r ...more
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Prisoner of the Caucasus
The Diary of a Madman
The Kreutzer Sonata
The Devil
Master and Man
Father Sergius
After the Ball
The Forged Coupon
Alyosha the Pot
Hadji Murat
(those that are underlined, I have reviewed separately – follow the link for the review)
There are some definite repeated themes - namely sex, death and religious r ...more
Nov 05, 2016
Pamela
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short-stories
Selection of short stories from 19th century Russia. Several deal with military life - the effect of conscription on peasant families, the lives of the officers, the skirmishes on the edges of the Russian lands. Tolstoy blends description and dialogue skilfully to create pictures that stuck in my mind, and brought out both the horror and the banality of death in military action.
The most affecting stories, though, were those that dug more deeply into the question of humanity and that old cliche, ...more
The most affecting stories, though, were those that dug more deeply into the question of humanity and that old cliche, ...more
Dec 03, 2016
Gerard
marked it as to-read
