{"product_id":"2026100012063-secondhand-the-cossacks-happy-ever-after-the-death-of-ivan-ilyich","title":"The Cossacks \/ Happy Ever After \/ The Death Of Ivan Ilyich","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree masterworks of Russian literature bound in a single volume, this Penguin Classics collection presents some of Leo Tolstoy's most celebrated short fiction, showcasing the full range of his extraordinary literary genius. The Cossacks chronicles the romantic and spiritual awakening of a young Moscow nobleman who escapes the hollow pleasures of aristocratic society to live among the wild, free Cossack people of the Caucasus — only to find that paradise carries its own painful contradictions. Happy Ever After (also known as Family Happiness) details the arc of a young woman's marriage with devastating psychological precision, while The Death of Ivan Ilyich — widely regarded as one of the greatest novellas ever written — confronts a dying magistrate's terrifying realisation that he has lived his entire life falsely.\n\nTolstoy's prose is deceptively simple yet surgically precise, cutting through the veneer of 19th-century Russian society to expose the universal human anxieties of meaning, mortality, and authenticity. Each work in this collection illustrates his unmatched ability to render interior consciousness with breathtaking realism, a quality that would go on to influence generations of writers from Chekhov to Hemingway. Together, these three tales form a profound meditation on how we live — and how, in our final moments, we are forced to reckon with the life we chose. The question Tolstoy leaves with us is a haunting one: is it ever too late to truly begin living?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51070624694491,"sku":"2026100012063-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f7066cea-4dd6-46a9-a997-4c82d201a03e.png?v=1794188205","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012063-secondhand-the-cossacks-happy-ever-after-the-death-of-ivan-ilyich","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}