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In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys
Alongside brutal depictions of violence and justice are jokes and deceptively slight
to live up to his expectations
a man takes the train through the snow to Japan's mountains
and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories A. A. Milne In 1914 a room full'no one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied' As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' and the other works in this volume, Tolstoy conjures characters who, tested to the limit, reveal glorious and unexpected reserves of courage or baseness of a near inhuman kind. Two vivid parables and 'The Forged Coupon', a tale of criminality,