London, England, United Kingdom, September 8, 2025-- Theatre of Life Productions has announced that its upcoming feature The Death of Ivan Ilych—adapted from Leo Tolstoy’s timeless novella—is now in ...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories gives us recent translations of 11 of Leo Tolstoy's poignant short stories by the two most renowned Russian translators today, Richard Pevear and Larissa ...

But it's also a picture that is eminently relatable to most readers. Who among us never sometimes resents the obligations placed upon us by work and family? Who never wonders if we are living as we ...

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Tosltoy’s Ivan is a man who spends his entire life building up an empty fortress of wealth and privilege only to realize, in his dying breath, that he is mostly miserable, that all his relentless ...

Our mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth. Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. Why The Death of Ivan Ilyich? Initially, ...

Leo Tolstoy in 1897. (F. W. Taylor/U.S. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS) With Thanksgiving having just passed, I find myself recounting my blessings, while also reconsidering my priorities and the trajectory of ...

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Characters in fiction don't spend much time dying anymore. Of course they die—if you were to remove from the shelves all the novels in which a life is lost, the stacks would be bare—and sometimes, as ...

Like most prose writers, I believe Count Leo Tolstoy was one of the greatest writers of fiction ever. His real competitors are not numerous, and few of those who have expressed scorn for Tolstoy's ...