Leo Tolstoy · 1886 · Novella
A successful magistrate falls ill and slowly realises, during the months of his dying, that he has spent his entire life performing the correct social role rather than living. Tolstoy's short masterpiece on the relationship between how we live and how we die — more devastating per page than anything in his longer novels.
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Leo TolstoyRussian · 1828–1910
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) wrote two novels widely considered among the greatest in any language — War and Peace and Anna Karenina — and dozens of shorter works that demonstrate the same compassionate observation at smaller scale.
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