The Death of Ivan Ilych
Written by Leo Tolstoi
Narrated by Matt Stewart
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
Leo Tolstoy's late masterpiece on dying and the unravelling of the values of his middle class protagonist.
Leo Tolstoi
Leo Tolstoy grew up in Russia, raised by a elderly aunt and educated by French tutors while studying at Kazen University before giving up on his education and volunteering for military duty. When writing his greatest works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy drew upon his diaries for material. At eighty-two, while away from home, he suffered from declining health and died in Astapovo, Riazan in 1910.
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Reviews for The Death of Ivan Ilych
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent short book. Excellently read. How did Tolstoy know what a person goes through as he lays dying?
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent narration, and a great opportunity to experience a text that might be difficult to manage through traditional reading alone. Masterfully told. That last line! Well, the reason the last line is so powerful is because of everything that lead up to its moment.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Brilliant, made me think about what I'm doing with my life
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I was pleasantly surprised. It looks at the experience of impending death through the eyes of the one that's dying. A must read/listen for anyone looking after a terminally ill family member.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing. To think this will happen to all of us... although not in the same way but we share the same blessed or cursed destiny: Death. We all get the same: a lifetime but maybe we should start reconsidering what we’re doing with our life and in what way we can change it so we can live truly happy.
Simply a brilliant work of art. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5We can still learn a lesson from the author ..
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great narration. Though I suppose it's hard to compare this work to more contemporary ones, I found it pretty uninteresting. Perhaps it would've been a more interesting exploration into death and mourning in 19th century Russia.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great insight into Death. Excellent reading of the audiobook.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm sure this book was ground breaking for its time. I can see how Tolstoy was known for his realism. As a palliative care nurse, all I can say is that the end stages of dying haven't changed much. We have medications that are much the same to try to "help manage" the discomforts of the end of life but even then it doesn't always work. A very interesting story and a lovely narration.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A very ordinary life, sickness and death depicted with a stunning insight. The story has the power to rip the thin veneer off our own ordinary lives and petty whims. Enlightening. Challenging. Beautiful. Absolutely brutal.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A wonderful exploration of death and the meaninglessness of so many of the things people build their lives on
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It’s a powerful short story, to make you reflect on how to make your life count while you’re alive.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Simple. Terrifying. Glorious.
I hope you will read this book and take it to heart, “how then ought we to live?” - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Extraordinary book. I’m not worthy of giving a review to Tolstoy