The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and ManBy: Leo Tolstoy Series: Modern Library Classics This new edition combines Tolstoys most famous short tale, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, Master and Man, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In Ivan Ilyich, a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner and servant must

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After the death of his grandfather

Tiny seeds in a row

In the heat of an intoxicating affair

Writing drove cultures toward linear left-brain thinking and this shift upset the balance between men and women

Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man’s life

The poems reach beyond surfaces

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he became the United States Poet Laureate and read his poems aloud on the steps of the Library of Congress

she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction—into the realm of the spiritual

Shrewdly written and sharply plotted