The Death of Ivan Iiyich and Master and Man
A new translation, with an introduction and notes, by Ann Pasternak Slater. This new edition brings together the very best of Tolstoy's great short stories. The death of Ivan Ilyich and equally brilliant master and Man. Both describe the subjective experience of death meticulously and uncompromisingly. In the snowstorm-inevitable death facing a rich landowner and his peasant employee, each tracing in extremity his own spiritual path. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of morality, redemption, and life's meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales. Ann Pasternak Slater, fellow and tutor in English at St. anne's college, oxford, has written and lectured on her uncle Boris Pasternak's translations od Shakespeare, and is the translator of his brother Alexander Pasternak's memoris. A vanished Present. Her grandmother loenoid pasternak was tolstoy's friend and one of his first illustrators, working with him on war and peace,resurrection and the late short story"what men live by". Includes a modern library reading group guide Joinn our modern library newsletter by sending a blank e-mail to:
