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The Riddle of Life and Death: Tell Me a Riddle and The Death of Ivan Ilych (Two By Two)
The Riddle of Life and Death Tell Me a Riddle and The Death of Ivan Ilych - Two By Two Author:Tillie Olsen, Leo Tolstoy Masters of short fiction illumine questions of pain, suffering, medicine, fate, and, most starkly, "Why am I dying?" Circling in psychological time, Tillie Olsen depicts the death of a working-class grandmother, a past proletarian revolutionary in Russia, and how her death devastates her family in mid-twentieth-century America. Leo Tolstoy's can... more »cer-ravaged Czarist bureaucrat weighs his life, searching for semblances of meaning in a linear, realistic story.« less