The Death of Ivan Ilyitch: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Death of Ivan Ilyitch, credited to Leo Tolstoy, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Death of Ivan Ilyitch, by Leo Tolstoy. Translated by Constance Garnett. Read by Laurie Anne Walden The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is the story of a socially ambitious middle-aged judge who contracts an unexplained and untreatable illness. As Ivan Ilyitch is forced to face the death he fears, he asks himself whether the life he thought was so correct was, in fact, a moral life after all. Written after Tolstoy's religious conversion, the novella is widely considered to be one of his masterpieces. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Death of Ivan Ilyitch
• Author credits: Leo Tolstoy
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 2:32:14

Catalogue topics

• novella
• short fiction
• Ivan Ilyich
• Ivan Ilich

Track guide

1. Chapter 01 — 22:00
2. Chapter 02 — 19:54
3. Chapter 03 — 18:32
4. Chapter 04 — 18:05
5. Chapter 05 — 11:19
6. Chapter 06 — 7:52
7. Chapter 07 — 10:30
8. Chapter 08 — 17:06
9. Chapter 09 — 7:40
10. Chapter 10 — 5:49
11. Chapter 11 — 7:16
12. Chapter 12 — 6:16

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