Смерть Ивана Ильича
By Лев Николаевич Толстой
Cover: Ice-Breakers on the Frozen Neva in St. Petersburg by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Ivan Ilyich, a respectable judge, falls ill after a trivial accident and has to face the thought that his whole life has been wrongly spent. Tolstoy's novella follows his dying with merciless honesty.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.