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The Death of Ivan Ilych
by Leo Tolstoy
I meant to listen to this book narrated by Simon Prebble, but read the text instead. Tolstoy did an impressive job of capturing the inside of Ivan’s mind as he went from self absorbed everyday man to a dying character. This excerpt from Wikipedia does a better job of capturing the writing than anything I might have said “From a biographical standpoint, therefore, it is possible to interpret The Death of Ivan Ilyich as a manifestation of Tolstoy's embroilment with death and the meaning of his own life during his final years. In other words, by dramatizing a particular sort of lifestyle and its unbearable decline, Tolstoy is able to impart his philosophy that success as it is judged by society, such as Ivan Ilyich's, comes at a great moral cost and if one decides to pay this cost, life will become hollow and insincere and therefore worse than death.”