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The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1886. It recounts the final illness and death of a mid-level Russian judicial official who, facing terminal illness, confronts the meaninglessness he perceives in his conventionally successful life. The narrative examines theme...
"Childhood, Boyhood, Youth" is an autobiographical trilogy by Russian author Leo Tolstoy, originally published between 1852 and 1857. The work traces the psychological and moral development of a young Russian nobleman named Nikolenka Irteniev from his early childhood to his university years. The nar...
The Slavery of Our Times is a philosophical and political essay written by Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1900. In the work, Tolstoy applies his Christian anarchist beliefs to critique the socioeconomic structures of industrial society. He directly compares wage labor and state coercion to chattel...
