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The Death of Ivan Ilych - Miniature Classics Library
The Death of Ivan Ilych - Miniature Classics Library Author:Leo Tolstoy Miniature Book - 2 /12 inches by 2 inches. Green leather binding. — Del Prado Publishing from Spain. Book is in English. — The novel tells the story of the life and death, at the age of 45, of a high court judge in 19th-century Russia ? a miserable husband, proud father, and upwardly-mobile member of Russia's professional class, the object of Tols... more »toy's unremitting satire. Living what seems to be a good life, his dreadful relationship with his wife notwithstanding, Ivan Ilyich Golovin bangs his side while putting up curtains in a new apartment intended to reflect his family's superior status in society. Within weeks, he has developed a strange taste in his mouth and a pain that will not go away. Numerous expensive doctors, friends of friends of friends, are visited in their surgeries, or called to the judge's bedside, but beyond muttering about blind gut and floating kidneys, they can neither explain nor treat his condition, and it soon becomes clear that Ivan Ilyich is dying.« less