The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is the first book of Leo Tolstoy i read. Its a small novel with 10 chapters and took me about 3hrs to complete in all. The story is about the life of a man named Ivan Ilych. It starts with folks from his work and his friends attending his funeral. The story then revolves around who he was and how he got injured on falling while he was infatuated with decorating his new house, his relationship with each member of his family, his reminiscences during his last days of his life when he reflects on his childhood and the happy memories of those days, what he feels about the doctors who don't seem to empathize with him and fail to answer his questions concerning his health in a direct manner. Tolstoy excels in describing the emotions of the characters and there are several occasions when the reader feels drawn by the realism of author's description of what the characters feel. Its a masterpiece of a work and i highly recommend it for the literary value of this book if not so much for the story in it.
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