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This new version includes Tolstoy’s most well-known 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 procedure of dying: In Ivan Ilyich, a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly appears useless and inefficient, during Master and Man, a landowner and slave must each confront the worthiness of another because they brave a devastating snowstorm. The perfect Tolstoyan styles of spiritual redemption, death, and life’s indicating are nowhere more deftly and movingly discovered than in both of these stories. This excellent version also contains a vital Introduction and extensive notes by Ann Pasternak Slater, a Guy at-st.