{"product_id":"lives-and-deaths-isbn-9781782275411","title":"Lives and Deaths","description":"\u003cb\u003eFresh translations of Tolstoy's four richest shorter works by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTolstoy's stories contain many of the most acutely observed moments in his monumental body of work. This new selection of his shorter works, sensitively translated by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk, showcases the peerless economy with which Tolstoy could render the passions and conflicts of a life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are works that take us from a self-interested judge's agonising deathbed to the bristling social world of horses in a stable yard, from the joyful vanity of youth to the painful doubts of sickness and old age. With unwavering precision, Tolstoy's eye brings clarity and richness to the simplest materials.   • \"Gratifying and timely.\" --\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \"When literature has a Tolstoy, it is easy and gratifying to be a writer. Even if you are aware that you have never accomplished anything, you don't feel so bad, because Tolstoy accomplishes enough for everyone\"--Anton Chekhov \u003cbr\u003e   • \"The greatest of all novelists\"--Virginia WoolfWhen   literature has a Tolstoy, it is easy and gratifying to be a writer. Even if   you are aware that you have never accomplished anything, you don't feel so   bad, because Tolstoy accomplishes enough for everyone. --Anton Chekhov\u003cbr\u003e The greatest of all novelists. --Virginia WoolfLeo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born to an aristocratic family near Tula, Russia. After abandoning his studies he returned to live on his family's estate, later enlisting in the army and serving in the Crimean War. Over the course of his life, he wrote plays, dozens of short stories and many works of philosophy. He is now one of the most widely admired writers of all time.The Death of\u003cbr\u003e Ivan Ilyich\u003cbr\u003e I\u003cbr\u003e In the large building that housed the halls of\u003cbr\u003e justice, during an adjournment in the Melvinsky\u003cbr\u003e trial, the members of the court and the public prosecutor\u003cbr\u003e gathered in the office of Ivan Yegorovich Shebek.\u003cbr\u003e Their talk soon turned to the famous Krasovsky case.\u003cbr\u003e Fyodor Vasilyevich grew heated, insisting on the\u003cbr\u003e manifest lack of jurisdiction, Ivan Yegorovich wasn’t\u003cbr\u003e swayed, while Pyotr Ivanovich, who had kept out\u003cbr\u003e of the fray from the start, leafed through the latest\u003cbr\u003e issue of the Gazette, which had just been delivered.\u003cbr\u003e “Gentlemen,” he interrupted, “Ivan Ilyich is dead.”\u003cbr\u003e “Can’t be…”\u003cbr\u003e “Here, have a look,” he replied, handing the fresh,\u003cbr\u003e still pungent pages to Fyodor Vasilyevich.\u003cbr\u003e The announcement was bordered in black: “It\u003cbr\u003e is with deepest sorrow that Praskovya Fyodorovna\u003cbr\u003e Golovina informs relatives and friends of the demise\u003cbr\u003e of her beloved spouse, Member of the Appellate\u003cbr\u003e Court Ivan Ilyich Golovin, which occurred on 4th\u003cbr\u003e February 1882. The funeral will be held on Friday,\u003cbr\u003e at one o’clock in the afternoon.”\u003cbr\u003e Ivan Ilyich had been a colleague of the assembled\u003cbr\u003e gentlemen, well liked by all of them. He had been\u003cbr\u003e ill for several weeks; they had heard the illness was\u003cbr\u003e incurable. His position had been kept open, but it\u003cbr\u003e was assumed that, in the event of his death, Alekseyev\u003cbr\u003e would be appointed to replace him, while Alekseyev’s\u003cbr\u003e position would be filled by either Vinnikov or Stabel.\u003cbr\u003e And so, upon learning of Ivan Ilyich’s death, the\u003cbr\u003e first thought that occurred to each of the gentlemen\u003cbr\u003e gathered in the office concerned the potential\u003cbr\u003e reassignments or promotions that this death might\u003cbr\u003e occasion for the members themselves or for their\u003cbr\u003e acquaintances.\u003cbr\u003e Now I’ll surely be named to replace Stabel or Vinnikov,\u003cbr\u003e thought Fyodor Vasilyevich. They’ve been promising me\u003cbr\u003e a promotion for a long time. And it means a raise of eight\u003cbr\u003e hundred roubles, along with an allowance.\u003cbr\u003e I’ll have to apply for my brother-in-law’s transfer from\u003cbr\u003e Kaluga, thought Pyotr Ivanovich. Yes, that ought to make\u003cbr\u003e my wife very happy indeed. No more complaints about my\u003cbr\u003e never doing anything for her family.","brand":"Pushkin Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305240678629,"sku":"NP9781782275411","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781782275411.jpg?v=1767731582","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/lives-and-deaths-isbn-9781782275411","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}