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So my classics professor recommended reading The Death of Ivan Ilyich over the winter break. Pretty interested in it. But what's the recommended translation? I don't want to blindly just purchase a copy because it's cheap on Amazon, and lose part of the experience of the book due to a word being poorly translated, or edited sloppily.

Also, should I just get Death of... by itself, or should I get one of the "& Other Stories" volumes? I'm mostly concerned about it being portable enough to read on the go. I'm not typically a fan of volumes with many books in them, but I'm not so vigorously opposed to them that I won't get it if it seems to be a good idea.

What kind of other is Tolstoy? I know his later works are radically different from his more famous, earlier works. How approachable is his writing style? Should I just get Death of... to begin with and see if I'd want to continue, or would it be worth getting the collected work?

>> No.3214154

Bump. Anyone?

>> No.3214166

>>3213195
0307388867
search for this in Amazon and get this. good translation and it also has Hadji Murat and The Kreutzer Sonata

>> No.3214172

damn good story. read it just after my grandfather died

>> No.3214258

>So my classics professor recommended reading The Death of Ivan Ilyich

I wouldn't trust professors. My english professor claimed he didn't own a TV and never watched television. I happened to go to his house and he had 3 flat screen televisions and I also noticed a large collection of television series boxsets.

>> No.3214263

>>3214258

you filthy whore

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3214265

>>3214258
>I knew this one guy who did this one thing
>don't trust anyone in his field

>> No.3214271

>>3214258
professors and a majority of scholars are literally those pretentious liars who manage to squirm their way through college and all its phases. they never get out of the whole "i'm eleven" phase of life.

>> No.3214279

>>3214271
I shudder to think what being eleven years old was like for you

>> No.3214295 [DELETED] 

>>3214279

>late at night
>shh it'll be over soon

>> No.3214860

>>3214258

So... your* English* professor lied to you* about not watching* or owning* a TV*
And because of this, you think it would be a bad idea for me to listen to my published (0801473357) and generally incredibly respectable professor about what a good book is to read?

I mean, maybe if you were trying to convince me not to listen to a professor in a certain field because you had multiple experiences of them reading bad literature and recommending it, but seriously? "My teacher owned a TV so that Tolstoy book is probably bad"?

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3214894

I would distrust your professor solely on the basis that he looks like a jew

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>>3214894

One of my favorite teachers is Jewish. Cook however, at the very least leans agnostic atheist, at the most is possibly a deist.

6.5/10 attempt though, for actually Googling him and trying to make some attempt out of that.