The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

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Translation copyright © 2009 by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Introduction copyright © 2009 by Richard Pevear

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This translation has been made from volumes X, XII, and XIV of Collected Works in Twenty-two Volumes (Moscow: Khudozhestvennava Literature, 1982–83).

The Diary of a Madman originally appeared in The Harvard Advocate, vol. 143. no. 2 (Winter 2008).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828–1910.

[Short stories. English. Selections]

The death of Ivan Ilyich and other stories / Leo Tolstoy; translated by Richard Pevear and

Larissa Volokhonsky; with an introduction by Richard Pevear.—1st ed.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-27332-1

1. Short stories, Russian—Translations into English. 2. Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828–1910—

Translations into English. I. Pevear, Richard, 1943–II. Volokhonsky, Larissa. III. Title.

PG3366.A13P47 2009

891.73′3—dc22 2009015284

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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