The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories (Signet Classics)

Leo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep aside the sham of surface appearances and lay bare man’s intimate gestures, acts, and thoughts. Murder and sacrifice…greed and devotion…lust and affection…vanity and love—one by one, in this volume of great stories, Tolstoy dissects the basic drives, emotions, and motives of ordinary people searching for self-knowledge and spiritual perfection. Chekhov said, “Of authors my favorite is Tolstoy.” And Turgenev “marveled at the strength of his huge talent…It sends a cold shudder even down my back…He is a master, a master.”

Now with a new introduction by Regina Marler and an afterword by Hugh McLean.

• Saint Joan (Penguin Classics)
• The Art of War
• Sacred Choices: The Right to Contraception nd Abortion in Ten World Religions (Sacred Energies Series)
• The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
• Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories (FSG Classics)
• All My Sons
• Antigone (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
• Measure for Measure (Signet Classics)
• Debating the Death Penalty: Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts on Both Sides Make Their Case
• Kant: Ethical Philosophy: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, and, Metaphysical Principles of Virtue, with, "On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns" (Hackett Classics)