Classic & Older Gothic
by Aylmer Maude
High court judge Ivan Ilych has constructed a respectable life of empty propriety and social climbing when a trivial accident leads to a mysterious, fatal illness. As death approaches, he confronts the terrible possibility that his entire existence has been a lie. Tolstoy's unsparing novella strips away all consolations to expose the raw terror and potential redemption in mortality.
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