The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics)

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories gathers four major works by Leo Tolstoy in English translation: Family Happiness, The Kreutzer Sonata, The Devil, and The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Together, they examine marriage, desire, jealousy, moral responsibility, social convention, and the pressures placed on private life. The collection ranges from the perspective of a young wife to the disturbing reflections of a man confronting marital breakdown and sexual temptation.

The title novella follows Ivan Ilyich, a successful civil servant whose comfortable, carefully ordered existence is disrupted by serious illness. As he faces physical decline and the limits of his social world, Tolstoy explores fear, isolation, self-deception, and the possibility of moral insight. This Wordsworth Classics edition includes an introduction and notes by Dr T. C. B. Cook, making it suitable for general readers, students, and readers of nineteenth-century Russian literature.