Author: Mark Van Doren
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
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Author: Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781356820054
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Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Author: Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781542476966
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Pages : 68

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The Death of Ivan Ilych By Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Author: Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy
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Pages : 112

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Book Excerpt:...e were in some way to blame. Behind her, with the same offended look, stood a wealthy young man, and examining magistrate, whom Peter Ivanovich also knew and who was her fiance, as he had heard. He bowed mournfully to them and was about to pass into the death-chamber, when from under the stairs appeared the figure of Ivan Ilych's schoolboy son, who was extremely like his father. He seemed a little Ivan Ilych, such as Peter Ivanovich remembered when they studied law together. His tear-stained eyes had in them the look that is seen in the eyes of boys of thirteen or fourteen who are not pure-minded. When he saw Peter Ivanovich he scowled morosely and shamefacedly. Peter Ivanovich nodded to him and entered the death-chamber. The service began: candles, groans, incense, tears, and sobs. Peter Ivanovich stood looking gloomily down at his feet. He did not look once at the dead man, did not yield to any depressing influence, and was one of the first to leave the room. There was no one in the anteroom, but Gerasim da...

Author: Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
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Pages : 71

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During an interval in the Melvinski trial in the large building of the Law Courts the members and public prosecutor met in Ivan Egorovich Shebek's private room, where the conversation turned on the celebrated Krasovski case. Fedor Vasilievich warmly maintained that it was not subject to their jurisdiction, Ivan Egorovich maintained the contrary, while Peter Ivanovich, not having entered into the discussion at the start, took no part in it but looked through the Gazette which had just been handed in. "Gentlemen," he said, "Ivan Ilych has died!"