Tolstoy’s famous story is an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption.

Ivan Ilyich is a middle-aged man who has spent his life focused on his career as a bureaucrat and emotionally detached from his wife and children. After an accident he finds himself on the brink of an untimely death, which he sees as a terrible injustice. Face to face with his mortality, Ivan begins to question everything he has believed about the meaning of life. His bursts of irrational hope in the face of death are heart rending. In accompanying Ivan Ilych to the very edge of the abyss we look into our own future and see what awaits us there. A thoroughly absorbing and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the inevitability of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a masterpiece of psychological realism and philosophical profundity that has inspired generations of readers.